THE BROWN FLY, &C. 



or minnow. The size of the hook this fly is made 

 on, is No. 7 ; hut if the water is very low and 

 fine, No. 8. 



THE BROWN FLY, OR DUN DRAKE, 



Comes on about the middle of March, and 

 continues till the latter end of April ; its wings 

 are made off the feather of the pheasant's wing 

 which is full of fine shade, and exactly resem- 

 bles the wing of the fly ; the body is made of 

 the bright part of hare's fur, mixed with a little 

 of the red part of squirrel's fur, ribbed with 

 yellow silk, and a partridge's hackle wrapt 

 over twice or thrice under the hut of the wing : 

 as it swims down the water, its wings stand 

 upright upon its back, its tail is forked, and 

 the color of its wing : it comes upon the water 

 about eleven o'clock, and continues on till two, 

 appearing on the water in shoals, or great 

 quantities ; in dark gloomy days, at the ap- 

 proach of the least gleam of sun, it is amazing 

 to see, iu a moment's time, the surface of the 

 water almost covered with ten thousands of 

 these pretty little Hying insects, and the iishes 

 rising and sporting at them, insomuch that you 

 would think the whole river was alive ; it is 

 a pleasing sight to the angler, and affords him 

 great diversion ; in this mariner they appear on 

 the water every successive clay, till the end of 

 their duration. The blue dun, and the brown, 

 are both on at the same time ; the blues are 

 most plentiful in cold and dark days, aud the 

 browns in warm and gloomy days, though I 

 have often seen blues, browns, and granams, on 

 at the same time, when they have refused the 

 other two sorts, and have taken the browns 



