232 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART n. 



SEPTEMBER. 



This month the same flies are taken that are taken in April. 



1. To which I shall only add a CAMEL-BROWN-FLY, the 

 dubbing pulled out of the lime of a wall, whipped about with 

 red silk, and a darkish grey mallard's feather for the wing. 



2. And one other for which we have no name ; but it is made 

 of the black hair of a badger's skin, mixed with the yellow 

 softest down of a sanded hog. 



OCTOBER. 



The same flies are taken this month as were taken in March. 



NOVEMBER. 



The same flies that were taken in February are taken this 

 month also. 



DECEMBER. 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no more than they do 

 in January; but yet, if the weather be warm (as I have known 

 it sometimes in my life to be, even in this cold country, where it 

 is least expected), then a BROWN, that looks red in the hand, 

 and yellowish betwixt your eye and the sun, will both raise and 

 kill in a clear water and free from snow-broth ; but, at the best, 

 it is hardly worth a man's labour. 



And now, sir, I have done with fly-fishing, or angling at the 

 top, excepting once more, to tell you, that of all these (and I 

 have named you a great many very killing flies) none are fit 

 to be compared with the DRAKE and STONE-FLY, both for 

 many and for very great fish ; and yet there are some days that 

 are by no means proper for the sport. And in a calm you shall 

 not have near so much sport, even with daping, as in a whistling 

 gale of wind, for two reasons, both because you are not then so 

 easily discovered by the fish, and also because there are then 

 but few flies that can lie upon the water; for where they have 

 so much choice, you may easily imagine they will not be so 

 eager and forward to rise at a bait, that both the shadow of your 



