BESTS AKT OF ANGLING. 



only : there cannot be too much said in com- 

 mendation of this fly, both for its duration, and 

 the sport it affords the angler : The size of the 

 hook it is made on, is No. 6. 



THE GRAN AM FLY, OR GREEN-TAIL, 



Comes on about the beginning of April, if 

 the weather is warm, being a very tender fly, 

 and cannot endure the cold. When they first 

 appear on the water, they do so in great quan- 

 tities, in bright mornings, you may begin to 

 fish with them from six o'clock in the morning 

 till eleven ; then you will find the browns come 

 on, which you must use, as the fish will not 

 touch the granams as long as the browns con- 

 tinue , about five o'clock in the evening you 

 may use the granams again with success, the 

 browns having then totally disappeared for that 

 day. The granam-fly is a four winged fly : as 

 it swims down the water its wings lie flat on its 

 back, it has a small bunch of eggs, of a green. 

 colour, which gives it the name of the Green-tail 

 jly\ as soon as it lights on the water, it drops 

 its eggs ; it is of short duration, not lasting 

 above a week, and then totally disappears for 

 that year. The wings are made from a feather 

 out of the wing of a partridge or pheasant, 

 which is shaded like the wing of a fly ; the 

 body is made of the fur from a hare's face, or 

 ear, and a grizzled hackle of a cock wrapt 

 under the but of the wings. The hook, No. 8. 



THE SPIDER FLY> 



Comes on about the twentieth of April, if 

 the weather is warm, and continues on about 



