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reel, by no means a multiplier, thirty lines of good hair, 

 or hair and silk line, with a casting line of the best gut, 

 about four and a half or five feet in length, and two or 

 three casts of flies, twisted round your hat, each having 

 a different fly for the dropper, to be changed, accordingly 

 as you find fish in the humor to rise. 



My own favorites are the marlow buzz, better known 

 as the coch-a-bonddlue ; silver-horns, black and silver 

 twist hackle, the green and gray drakes, the yellow 

 Sally, the downhill fly, woodcock wing, and red hackle, 

 the grannon, .or green tail, the blue and yellow dun flies, 

 and almost any of the spinners. I am also rather par- 

 tial to the buzz-dressed, unwinged hackle flies of almost 

 any color, with red, green, black or yellow bodies, which 

 may be varied with gold or silver twist. Any of these 

 I can recommend by experience as killing flies ; I should 

 not omit the small black midge, which on some waters, 

 and in some states of weather, is a most killing lure to 

 wary fish, being very small, and requiring delicate tackle. 

 "Where waters are much fished, and trout so much per- 

 secuted as to be very shy of rising, sport may sometimes 

 be had by fishing at twilight with a large white miller, 

 white hen's wing, white chevil body and black head, 

 arid as the largest and laziest, and, of course, fattest fish 

 rarely pursue their prey in the day time, but are on the 

 feed all night, if any sport is to be had at all in this 

 manner, it is nearly certain to be good sport. 



Large trout may be killed thus in the upper Delaware, 



