THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART II. 



mixed dubbing of marten's fur, and the white of a hare's-sout ; 

 with a very white and small wing. And 't is no great matter 

 how fine you fish, for nothing will rise in this month but a 

 Grayling ; and of them I never, at this season, saw any taken 

 with a fly, of above a foot long, in my life ; but of little ones, 

 about the bigness of a smelt, in a warm day and a glowing sun, 

 you may take enough with these two flies ; and they are both 

 taken the whole month through. 



FEBRUARY. 



1. Where the RED BROWN of the last month ends, another, 

 almost of the same color, begins with this ; saving, that the 

 dubbing of this must be of something a blacker color, and both 

 of them warpt on with red silk. The dubbing that should 

 make this fly, and that is the truest color, is to be got off the 

 black spot of a hog's ear : not that a black spot in any part of 

 the hog will not afford the same color, but that the hair in that 

 place is by many degrees softer, and more fit for the purpose : 

 his wing must be as the other ; and this kills all this month, 

 and is called the LESSER RED-BROWN. 



2. This month also a PLAIN HACKLE, or Palmer-fly, made 

 with a rough black body, either of black spaniel's fur, or the 

 whirl of an ostrich-feather, and the red hackle of a capon over 

 all, will kill j and, if the weather be right, make very good 

 sport. 



3. Also a LESSER HACKLE with a black body also, silver- 

 twist over that, and a red feather over all, will fill your pan- 

 nier, if the month be open, and not bound up in ice, and snow, 

 with very good fish ; but in case of a frost and snow, you are 

 to angle only with the smallest gnats, browns, and duns, you 

 can make ; and with those are only to expect Graylings no 

 bigger than sprats. 



4. In this month, upon a whirling round water, we have a 

 GREAT HACKLE j the body black, and wrapped with a re4 



