120 ART OF ANGLING. 



MAECH BEOWJST. No. 3. 



About the middle of March this very excellent 

 fly makes its appearance, and continues till the end 

 of April. The wings are upright, and made of a 

 feather from a pheasant's wing, or a dark mottled 

 feather from the tail of a partridge ; the body of fur 

 from a hare's ear, mixed with squirrel's fur, and 

 ribbed up with yellow silk, or hare's fur, mixed with 

 a little yellow worsted; a partridge's or grizzled 

 cock's hackle for legs; and two fibres of the feather 

 which compose the wings to form the tail ; the hook 

 No. 7 or 8. This fly may be used with great success 

 in warm gloomy days, from eleven o'clock till three ; 

 and when the Brown fly is on the water the fish 

 will refuse all other kinds. There cannot be too 

 much said in commendation of this fly, both for its 

 duration, and the extraordinary sport it affords the 

 angler. A reduced fly, of the same form and mate- 

 rials, will be found very killing in the month of 

 August. 



COWDUNG FLY. JSTo. 4. 



This fly will be found on the excrement of cattle, 

 about the same time as the Brown fly appears on 

 the water ; the principal time to angle with it is from 

 its first appearance to the end of April, although it 



