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tell you, that upon my knowledge these flies in a warm sun, 

 For an hour or two in the day, are certainly taken. 



JANUARY. 



1. A Red Brown, with wings of the male of a mallard 

 almost white : the dubbing of the tail of a black long-coated 

 cur, such as they commonly make muffs of ; for the hair on 

 the tail of such a dog dies and turns to a red brown, but the 

 hair of a smooth-coated dog of the same colour will not do, 

 because it will not die, but retains its natural colour ; and 

 this fly is taken in a warm sun, this whole month through. 



2. There is also a very little Bright Dun Gnat, as little as 

 can possibly be made, so little as never to be fished with 

 with above one hair next the hook ; and this is to be made 

 of a mixed dubbing of marten's fur, and the white of a hare's 

 scut, with a very white and small wing ; and it is no great 

 matter how fine you fish, for nothing will rise in this month 

 but a grayling ; and of them I never, at this season, saw 

 any taken with a fly of above a foot long in my life ; but 

 of little ones about the bigness of a smelt, in a warm day 

 and a glowing sun, you may take enough with these two 

 flies, and they are both taken the whole month through. 



FEBRUARY. 



I. Where the red brown of the last month ends, another 

 almost of the same colour begins, with this saving, that the 

 dubbing of this must be of something a blacker colour, and 

 both of them wrapt on with red silk. The dubbing that 

 should make this fly, and that is the truest colour, is to be 

 got off the black spot of a hog's ear : not that a black spot 

 in any part of the hog will not afford the same colour, but 



