CHAP. VIII.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 28$ 



he makes but little use of them, for you shall rarely see him 

 flying, though often swimming and paddling, with several feet 

 he has under his belly, upon the water, without stirring a wing. 

 But the Drake will mount steeple-high into the air ; though he 

 is to be found upon flags and grass too, and, indeed, everywhere 

 high and low near the river ; there being so many of them in 

 their season, as, were they not a very inoffensive insect, would 

 look like a plague : and these Drakes (since I forgot to tell you 

 before, I will tell you here) are taken by the fish to that to- 

 credible degree, that, upon a calm day, you shall see the still' 

 deeps continually all over circles by the fishes rising, who will 

 gorge themselves with those flies, till they purge again out of 

 their gills : and the Trouts are at that time so lusty and strong, 

 that one of eight or ten inches long will then more struggle 

 and tug, and more endanger your tackle, than one twice as big 

 in winter : but pardon this digression. 



This Stone-Fly, then, we dape or dibble with, as with the 

 Drake, but with this difference : that whereas the Green-Drake 

 is common both to stream and still, and to all hours of the day, 

 we seldom dape with this but in the streams, for in a whis- 

 tling wind a made-fly in the deep is better, and rarely but 

 early and late, it not being so proper for the mid-time of the 

 day ; though a great Grayling will then take it very well in a 

 sharp stream, and here and there a Trout too, but much better 

 towards eight, nine, ten, or eleven of the clock at night, at 

 which time also the best fish rise, and the later the better, pro- 

 vided you can see your fly ; and when you cannot, a made-fly 

 will murder, which is to be made thus : the dubbing of bear's 

 dun with a little brown and yellow camlet very well mixed ; 

 but so placed, that your fly may be more yellow on the belly 

 and towards the tail underneath than in any other part ; and 

 you are to place two or three hairs of a black cat's beard on 

 the top of the hook, in your arming, so as to be turned up, 

 when you warp on your dubbing, and to stand almost upright, 

 and staring one from another : and note that your fly is to be 



