130 ART OP ANGLING. 



The male and female then unite and couple together 

 for two more hours, when they again return to 

 their sports, lay their eggs, and soon after die. 

 Thus they terminate their short life in the space of 

 a few hours, and the same day that saw them born 

 witnesses their death. Sturm. 



OKL PLY. No. 16. 



During the whole of June this fly may be seen 

 playing upon the top of the water, and is a good 

 killer at all hours of the day, especially after the 

 May Ply is gone. It has four wings lying flat on 

 the back, and which should be made of a dark 

 grizzled cock's hackle, or a feather from the wing of 

 a brown hen; the body of peacock's harl, worked 

 with dark red silk, or the fur from a brown spaniel, 

 mixed with a little dark red mohair, and ribbed 

 with orange silk ; the hook No. 7. This fly is 

 principally used in warm weather, and when the 

 water is not very low. 



SKY BLUE No. 17. 



This fly also appears early in June, and continues 

 till the middle of July. The wings stand upright 

 and are made of the light blue feather of a hen, or 



