SECOND DAY. 



serves your turn, which also will be with and against you, 

 on the same side, several times in an hour, as the river winds 

 in its course, and you will be forced to angle up and down 

 by turns accordingly ; but endeavour as much as you can 

 to have the wind evermore on your back. And always be 

 sure to stand as far off the bank as your length will give 

 you leave when you throw to the contrary side ; though 

 when the wind will not permit you so to do, and that you 

 are constrained to angle on the same side whereon you 

 stand, you must then stand on the very brink of the river, 

 and cast your fly to the utmost length of your rod and line, 

 up or down the river, as the gale serves. 



It only remains, touching your line, to inquire whether 

 your two hairs next to the hook are better twisted or open ? 

 And for that I should declare that I think the open way 

 the better, because it makes less show in the water, but that 

 I have found an inconvenience, or two, or three, that have 

 made me almost weary of that way ; of which, one is, that, 

 without dispute, they are not so strong open as twisted ; 

 another, that they are not so easily to be fastened of so 

 exact an equal length in the arming that the one will not 

 cause the other to bag, by which means a man has but one 

 hair upon the matter to trust to ; and the last is that these 

 loose flying hairs are not only more apt to catch upon every 

 twig or bent they meet with, but moreover, the hook, in 

 falling upon the water, will, very often, rebound and fly 

 back betwixt the hairs, and there stick (which, in a rough 

 water especially, is not presently to be discerned by the 

 angler), so as the point of the hook shall stand reversed ; 

 by which means your fly swims backward, makes a much 

 greater circle in the water, and, till taken home to you and 



