THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART II 



MARCH. 



For this month you are to use all the same Hackles, and flies 

 with the other ; but you are to make them less. 



1. We have besides for this month, a little Dun called a 

 WHIRLING-DUN, though it is not the Whirling-Dun indeed, 

 which is one of the best flies we have ; and for this the dubbing 

 must be of the bottom fur of a squirrel's tail, and the wing of 

 the gray feather of a drake. 



2. Also a BRIGHT BROWN ; the dubbing either of the brown 

 of a spaniel, or that of a cow's flank, with a gray wing. 



3. Also a WHITISH DUN, made of the roots of camel's hair, 

 and the wings of the gray feather of a mallard. 



4. There is also for this month a fly, called the THORN-TREE 

 FLY ; the dubbing an absolute black, mixed with eight or ten 

 hairs of Isabella-colored mohair, the body as little as can be 

 made, and the wings of a bright mallard's feather : an admi- 

 rable fly, and in great repute amongst us for a killer. 



5. There is, besides this, another BLUE DUN, the dubbing 

 of which it is made being thus to be got. Take a small-tooth 

 comb, and with it comb the neck of a black greyhound, and 

 the down that sticks in the teeth will be the finest blue that 

 ever you saw. The wings of this fly can hardly be too white ; 

 and he is taken about the tenth of this month, and lasteth till 

 the four-and-twentieth. 



6. From the tenth of this month also, till towards the end, 

 is taken a little BLACK GNAT : the dubbing either of the fur of 

 a black water-dog, or the down of a young black water-coot ; 

 the wings of the male of a mallard, as white as may be ; the 

 body as little as you can possibly make it, and the wings as 

 short as his body. 



7. From the sixteenth of this month also, to the end of it, 

 we use a BRIGHT BROWN; the dubbing for which is to be 

 had out of a skinner's lime-pits, and of the hair of an abortive 



