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ANGLING IMPROVED. 



circles, but in nothing- at all resembling the fly it is in- 

 tended for: the head, horns, tail, are made as before. 

 That you may the better counterfeit all sorts of flies, 

 get furs of all sorts and colours you can possibly pro- 

 cure, as of bear's hair, foxes, cows, hogs, dogs, which 

 close to their bodies have a fine soft hair or fur, moc- 

 cado ends, crewels, and dyed wool of all colours, with 

 feathers of cocks, capons, hens, teals, mallards, wid- 

 geons, pheasants, partridges, the feather under the mal- 

 lard, teal or widgeon's wings, and about their tails, about 

 a cock or capon's neck and tail, of all colours ; and ge- 

 nerally of all birds, the kite, &c. that you may make 

 yours exactly of the colour with the natural fly. And 

 here I will give some cautions and directions, as for the 

 natural fly, and so pass on to baits for angling at the 

 ground. 



1 . When you angle with the artifical fly, you must 

 either fish in a river not fully cleared from some rain 

 lately fallen, that had discoloured itj or in a moorish 

 river, discoloured by moss or bogs ; or else in a dark 

 cloudy day, when a gentle gale of wind moves the water ; 

 but if the wind be high, yet so as you may guide your 

 tools with advantage, they will rise in the plain deeps, 

 and then and there you will commonly kill the best fish ; 

 but if the wind be little or none at all, you must angle 

 in the swift streams. 



2. You must keep your artificial fly in continual 

 motion, thouglrthe day be dark, the water muddy, and 

 the wind blow, or else the fish will discern and refuse it. 



3. If you angle in a river that is mudded by rain, 



