84 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



Let us begin to Angle in March with the Flie ; If 

 the weather prove Windie, or Cloudie, there are 

 severall kinds of Palmers that are good for that 

 time. 



First, a Black Palmer ribbed with silver ; the 

 second, a black Palmer with an Orenge-taunie body ; 

 thirdly, a black Palmer with the bodie made all of 

 black : fourthly, a red Palmer ribbed with gold, and a 

 red hackle mixed orenge cruel ; these Flies serve all 

 the year long morning and evening, Windie and 

 Cloudie. Then if the Aire prove bright and clear, 

 you must imitate the Hauthorn Flie, which is all 

 black and very small, the smaller the better. In 

 May take the may Flie : imitate that, which is made 

 severall wayes ; some make them with a shammie 

 body, ribbed with a black hair; another way made with 

 Sandy- Hogs wooll, ribbed with black silk, and winged 

 with a Mallards feather, according to the fancie of 

 the Angler. There is another called the Oak-Flie, 

 which is made of Orenge colour Cruel and black, with 

 a brown wing ; imitate that : . . . the smaller the Flies 

 be made, and of indifferent small hooks, they are the 

 better ; these sorts I have set down, will serve all the 

 yeer long, observing the times and seasons : Note, 

 the lightest of your Flies for cloudie and darknesse, 

 and the darkest of your Flies for lightnesse, and 

 the rest for indifferent times ; that a mans own 

 Judgement, with some experience and discretion 

 must guide him : If he mean to kill Fish, he must 

 alter his Flies according to these directions. 



Now, of late, I have found that Hogs wooll, of 

 severall colours, makes good grounds ; and the wooll 

 of a red Heyfer makes a good body ; and Bears 

 wooll makes a good ground ; so I now work much of 

 them, and it procureth very much sport. . 



Barker next describes fishing with the natural fly, 

 to which method of angling he gives the name of 



