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ANGLING IMPROVED. 



or two short and slow removes, suffer the $y to glide 

 gently with the stream towards the fish; or if in a stand- 

 ing- or very slow water, draw the fly slowly, and not di- 

 rectly upon him, but sloping and sidewise by him, which 

 will make him more eager lest it escape him; for, 

 should you move it nimbly and quick, they will not, 

 being fish of slow motion, follow as the Trout will. 



2. When Chub, Roach, or Dace shew themselves 

 in a sun-shiny day upon the top of the water, they are 

 most easily caught with baits proper for them ; and you 

 may chuse from amongst them which you please to take. 



3. They take an artificial fly with a cad-bait, or 

 oak-worm, on the point of the hook; and the oak-worm, 

 when they shew themselves is, better upon the water 

 than under, or than the fly itself, and is more desired by 

 them. 



CHAP. III. 



OF THE ARTIFICIAL FLY. 



HAVING given these few directions for the use of the 

 natural fly of all sorts, and shewed the time and season 

 of their coming, and how to find them, and cautioned 

 you in the use of them, I shall proceed to treat of the 

 artificial fly. But here I must premise, that it is much 

 better to learn how to make a fly by sight, than by any 

 written direction that can possibly be expressed, in re- 

 gard the terms of art do in most parts of England differ, 

 and also several sorts of flies are called by different 



