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the hook at its forehead, and bringing it out at its other 

 end. Slip it up on the shank, and let the point enter the 

 second fly at the heart j leaving the lower end unpierced, 

 so that the hook is completely concealed. Your tackle 

 must be very fine ! 



Practice will convince the angler, that large natural 

 baits cannot be thrown to any distance with advantage -, 

 the fact is, that they are far more appropriate to situations 

 close under the land, where the large fishes frequently 

 lay, especially in ponds, waiting for what the wind may 

 tender to them. 



Where waters are covered with film, or weeds, on the 

 lee side, the fishes will never lay in that quarter ; for they 

 are fond of seeing the surface ; from which all the round 

 bodied kinds chiefly receive their subsistence. 



Having said as much as I conceive to be necessary on 

 the foregoing topic, J shall proceed to instruct the learner 

 in what relates to 



The Artificial Fly. 



This is a very important branch no doubt, but the 

 several authors who have at all discussed it, seem to have 

 been very industrious to burthen it with difficulties. The 

 numberless forms and colours described, would fill an 

 ample volume : yet it is a fact (which I trust my descrip- 

 tion will prove), that the whole may be reduced within 

 a very small compass. 



1 here are only four kinds of the artificial fly neces- 

 sary, viz. 



1 . '1 he largely ivlth wings, either expanded or closed, 

 so as to stand over the back. 



2. The 



