282 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART II. 



bait them thus upon the hook. We first take one, for we com- 

 monly fish with two of them at a time, and, putting the point 

 of the hook into the thickest part of his body under one of his 

 wings, run it directly through, and out at the other side, leav- 

 ing him spitted cross upon the hook; and then taking the 

 other, put him on after the same manner, but with his head the 

 contrary way ; in which posture they will live upon the hook, 

 and play with their wings for a quarter of an hour, or more ; 

 but you must have a care to keep their wings dry, both from 

 the water, and also that your fingers be not wet when you take 

 them out to bait them ; for then your bait is spoiled. 



Having now told you how to angle with this fly alive, I am 

 now to tell you next, how to make an artificial-fly, that will so 

 perfectly resemble him, as to be taken in a rough windy day 

 when no flies can lie upon the water, nor are to be found about 

 the banks and sides of the river, to a wonder ; and with which 

 you shall certainly kill the best Trout and Grayling in the 

 river. 



The artificial Green-Drake, then, is made upon a large hook ; 

 the dubbing, camel's hair, bright bear's hair, the soft down 

 that is combed from a hog's bristles and yellow camlet, well 

 mixed together ; the body long, and ribbed about with green 

 silk, or rather yellow, waxed with green wax, the whisks of 

 the tail, of the long hairs of sables, or fitchet. and the wings of 

 the white gray feather of a mallard, dyed yellow ; which also is 

 to be dyed thus. 



Take the root of a Barbary-tree, and shave it, and put to it 

 woody viss, with as much alum as a walnut, and boil your 

 feathers in it with rain-water ; and they will be of a very fine 

 yellow. 



I have now done with the Green-Drake ; excepting to tell 

 you, that he is taken at all hours during his season, whilst 

 there is any day upon the sky ; and with a made-fly I once 

 took, ten days after he was absolutely gone, in a cloudy day, 

 after a shower, and in a whistling wind, five and thirty very 



