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of the flies named for April. For September, and for July and August, 

 I recommend five flies of great attractiveness : 



No. 1. Wings, a mixture of the fibres of the red and gray tail-feathers 

 of the partridge ; body, cinnamon -brown mohair ; legs, an amber-dyed 

 hackle, from tail to wings ; tail, two fibres of the hackle. Hook, 10. 



No. 2. Wings, starling's feather ; body, golden olive mohair ; legs, 

 hackle of the same colour ; gold tip. Hook, as before. 



No. 3. Wings, a mixture of the starling's wing feather and partridge 

 grey tail-feather ; body, bronze harl, with an orange floss silk tag, gold 

 tip ; legs, black -red hackle. Hook, 8 and 10. This fly is named the 

 " Governor/' 



No. 4. Wings, the top, beautiful green fibres of the peacock's moon- 

 feather ; body, bright bronze peacock's harl ; legs, sometimes a furnace 

 hackle, at others a pure black one. Hook, 10 and 11. 



No. 5. Wings, a mixture of starling's wing, and brown mottled mallard 

 feather ; body, olive-green mohair ; legs, hackle of same colour, and gold 

 tip. Hook, as before. 



Reader, I have now added to Cotton's monthly lists of trout and 

 grayling flies, the very best modern patterns. I have fished, in my time, 

 with the great majority of them. I know by experience their captivating 

 qualities, and I recommend them confidently to all fly-fishers for fresh 

 water salmonidae. ED.] 



DECEMBER. 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no more than 

 they do in January ; but yet, if the weather be warm (as I 

 have known it sometimes in my life to be, even in this cold 

 country, where it is least expected), then a BROWN, that looks 

 red in the hand, and yellowish betwixt your eye and the sun, 

 will both raise and kill in a clear water and free from snow- 

 broth ; but, at the best, it is hardly worth a man's labour. 



And now, sir, I have done with fly-fishing, or angling at 

 the top, excepting once more, to tell you, that of all these 

 (and I have named you a great many very killing flies), none 

 are fit to be compared with the DRAKE and STONE-FLY, both 

 for many and for very great fish ; and yet there are some 

 clays that are by no means proper for the sport. And in a 

 calm you shall not have near so much sport, even with 

 daping, as in a whistling gale of wind, for two reasons, both 

 because you are not then so easily discovered by the fish, and 

 also because there are then but few flies that can lie upon the 

 water ; for where they have so much choice, you may easily 

 imagine they will not be so eager and forward to rise at a 

 bait, that both the shadow of your body, and that of your 

 rod, nay of your very line, in a hot calm day, will, in spite 



