J30 BEST';? A KT OF ANGLING. 



curious fly, and cannot be made too fine ; it is 

 to be fished with from about eleven o'clock in 

 the forenoon till three in the afternoon. When 

 these flies are on, the fishes refuse every other 

 sort, and take these only, every sort of fish 

 being fond of them. The wings are made from 

 a cormorant's feather that grows under the 

 wing, or oft' the feather of a dark-blue hen, that 

 grows on the tody, under the wings ; the body 

 is made of water-rats fur, ribbed with yellow 

 silk, and a sooty blue hackle of a cock, wrap I 

 over, the body. The hook, No. 8 or 9* 



THE YELLOW SALLY FLY, 



Comes on about the twentieth of May, and 

 continues on till about the tenth or twelfth of 

 June* It is a. four-winged fly ; as it swims 

 down the water its wings lie flat on its back. 

 The wings are made with a yellow cock's 

 hackle, and the body of martin's fur, taken 

 from the spots under the jaws, which is a fine 

 yellow. It is one of tkosejiies that prepare the 

 Jish to look for the May-Jly, or Green-drake. The 

 hook, No. 7. 



THE OAKt ASH, WOODCOCK, CANNON, OR DOJTN* 

 HILL FLY. 



Comes on about the sixteenth of May, and 

 continues on till about a week in June ; it is to 

 be found on the buts of trees, with its head al- 

 ways downwards, which gives it the name of 

 the' Down-hili-fly.* It is bred in oak-apples, 



* Vide description of this fly, p:\rt 1st, under Natural Kly 

 fishing. 



