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hen, or cormorant, the body of water-rat's fur, 

 ribbed with yellow silk, and a blue cock's 

 hackle wrapt over the body ; the tail is forked, 

 and of the same colour as the wings ; the hook 

 No. 10. This is a very neat small fly, and is 

 to be fished with in cold weather, from eleven 

 o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon. 



Yellow Sally. 11. 



About the twentieth of May the Yellow Sally 

 Fly may be seen, and it continues till the mid- 

 dle of June. The wings are made of a yellow 

 cock's hackle, and the body with yellow dub- 

 bing ; the hook No. 8 or 9. 



Canon, or Down-hill Fly. 12. 

 This is the fly which is so frequently seen 

 on the trunks of oak, ash, and willow trees; it 

 is invariably found with its head pointing down- 

 wards, from which circumstance it derives the 

 appropriate name of the Down-hill fly. It ap- 

 pears about the twentieth of May and continues 

 about a week in June. The wings are made of 

 a feather from the wing of a partridge, the body 

 of a bittern's feather, and the head of the brown 

 fur of a hare ; the hook No. 8 or 9. This fly 

 is bred in the oak-apple, and, like the Cowdung, 

 is seldom seen on the water. Two of these flies, 

 when alive, are an excellent bait to use in bob- 

 bing or dapping for Trout. 



