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towards eight, nine, ten, or eleven of the clock at night, at 

 which time also the best fish rise, and the later the better, 

 provided you can see your fly ; and when you cannot, a made- 

 fly will murder, which is to be made thus : the dubbing of bear's 

 dun, with a little brown and yellow camlet very well mixed, but 

 so placed that your fly may be more yellow on the belly and 

 towards the tail, underneath, than in any other part ; and you 

 are to place two or three hairs of a black cat's beard on the top 

 of the hook, in your arming, so as to be turned up when you 

 warp on your dubbing, and to stand almost upright, and staring 

 one from another ; and note, that your fly is to be ribbed with 

 yellow silk; and the wings long and very large, of the dark 

 grey feather of a mallard. 



14. The next May-fly is the BLACK-FLY; made with a black 

 body, of the whirl of an ostrich-feather, ribbed with silver-twist, 

 and the black hackle of a cock over all ; and is a killing fly, but 

 not to be named with either of the other. 



15. The last May-fly (that is, of the four pretenders) is the 

 little YELLOW MAY-FLY; in shape exactly the same with the 

 GREEN-DRAKE, but a very little one, and of as bright a yellow 

 as can be seen; which is made of a bright yellow camlet, and 

 the wings of a white-grey feather dyed yellow. 



1 6. The last fly for this month (and which continues all June, 

 though it comes in the middle of May) is the fly called the 

 CAMLET-FLY, in shape like a moth, with fine diapered or water 

 wings, and with which, as I told you before, I sometimes used to 

 dibble; and grayling will rise mightily at it. But the artificial 

 fly which is only in use amongst our anglers is made of a 

 dark brown shining camlet, ribbed over with a very small light 

 green silk, the wings of the double grey feather of a mallard ; 

 and it is a killing fly for small fish ; and so much for May. 



JUNE. 



From the first to the four-and-twentieth, the GREEN-DRAKE 

 and STONE-FLY are taken, as I told you before. 



I. From the twelfth to the four-and-twentieth, late at night, is 



