CHAPTER V. 



OF FLY-FISHING. 



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PlSC. Fly-fishing, or fishing at the top, is, as I said before, 

 of two sorts ; with a natural and living fly, or with an 

 artificial and made fly. 



First, then, of the natural fly ; of which we generally use 

 but two sorts ; and those but in the two months of May and 

 June only ; namely, the green drake and the stone-fly ; 

 though I have made use of a third that way, called the 

 camlet-fly, with very good success, for grayling, but never 

 saw it angled with by any other after this manner, my 

 master only excepted, who died many years ago, and was 

 one of the best anglers that ever I knew. 



These arc to be angled with, with a short line, not much 

 more than half the length of your rod, if the air be still ; or 

 with a longer very near, or all out, as long as your rod, if 



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