426 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



2. Also a bright brown ; the dubbing either of the brown 

 of a spaniel, or that of a red cow's flank, with a grey wing. 



3. Also a whitish dun ; made of the roots of camel's hair, 

 and the wings of the grey feather of a mallard. 



4. There is also for this month a fly called the Thorn-tree 

 Fly; the dubbing an absolute black, mixed with eight or ten 

 hairs of Isabella-coloured mohair ; the body as little as can 

 be made, of a bright mallard's feather. An admirable fly, 

 and in great repute amongst us for a killer. 



5. There is, besides this, another blue dun, the dubbing of 

 which it is made being thus to be got : Take a small-tooth 

 comb, and with it comb the neck of a black greyhound, and 

 the down that sticks in the teeth will bs the finest blue that 

 you ever saw. The wings of this fly can hardly be too white, 

 and he is taken about the tenth of this month, and lasteth 

 till the four-and-twentieth. 



6. From the tenth of this month also, till towards the end, 

 is taken a little black gnat ; the dubbing either of the fur of 

 a black water-dog, or the down of a young black water-coot, 

 the wings of the mals of a mallard as white as may be, the 

 body as little as you can possibly make it, and the wings as 

 short as his body. 



7. From the sixteenth of this month also to the end of it, 

 we use a bright brown ; the dubbing for which is to be had 

 out of a skinner's lime-pits, and of the hair of an abortive 

 calf, which the lime will turn to be so bright as to shine like 

 gold ; for the wings of this fly the feather of a brown lien is 

 best, which fly is taken till the tenth of April. 



APRIL. 



All the same hackles and flies that were taken in March 



