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THE RED ANT ELY. Body, peacock's herl, made full at the 

 tail, and spare towards the head,, red or ginger cock's hackle; 

 wings, the light feather of the starling's wing. Hook, Nos. 9 

 and 10. 



THE LAND ELY. Body, the fur from the hare's neck, twisted 

 round with silk of the same colour; legs, a ginger hen's hackle ; 

 wings, the feather from a landrail's wing. Hook, No. 9. 

 ^ THE ALDER ELY. Body, Peacock's herl, tied with dark brown 

 silk ; legs, cock's hackle ; wings, the brown speckled feather of a 

 mallard's back. Hook, No. 8. 



THE GREENDRAKE ELY. Body, yellow gloss silk, ribbed with 

 brown silk; the extreme head and tail coppery peacock's herl; 

 legs, a red and ginger hackle ; wings, the mottled wing of a 

 mallard stained olive; tail, three hairs of a rabbit's whiskers. 

 Hook, No. 6. 



THE GREY DRAKE. Body, white flos silk^ ribbed with dark 

 brown or mulberry-coloured silk: head and tip of the tail pea- 

 cock's herl; legs, a grizzled cock's hackle- wings, a mallard's 

 mottled feather made to stand upright ; tail, three whiskers of a 

 rabbit. Hook, Nos. 6 and 7. 



t THE GOVERNOR ELY. Body, coppery-coloured peacock's herl, 

 ribbed with gold twist ; legs, red or ginger hackle ; legs, the light 

 part of a pheasant's wing. Hook, No. 9. 



THE COACHMAN < ELY. Body, copper -coloured cock's herl; 

 legs, red hackle ; wings, the light feathers of the landrail. Hook, 

 No. 8. 



Cow-DuNG ELY. Body, dun lemon-coloured mohair ; legs, red 

 hackle ; wings, a feather of the landrail or starling's wing. Hook, 

 Nos. 8 and 9. 



TROLLING POR TROUT. 



This mode of trout-fishing has become very common in Great 

 Britain within these thirty years, and is a very successful one, 

 particularly in the spring of the year, and in most rivers after a 

 summer flood. Trolling, however, has long lain under a species of 

 reproach, as being of a poking, poaching, interloping character; 

 and on this account it is, in some districts of England, strictly pro- 

 hibited. This stigma is not a modern thing it is mentioned in 

 angling satirical songs 250 years ago ; and in one poetical piece, 

 which we shall here insert, by Llewellyn, in his " Men Miracles " 

 (1646), we find trolling is severely handled, along with other unfair 

 modes of fishing : 



" You that fish for dace and roches, 

 Carpes and tenches, bonus noches, 

 Thou wast borne betweene two dishes, 

 When the Eryday signe was fishes. 



