436 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



find him, and from thence doubtless he derives his name ; 

 though, for want of such convenience, he will make shift 

 with the hollow of a bank, or any other place where the 

 wind cannot come to fetch him off. His body is long, and 

 pretty thick, and as broad at the tail almost as in the 

 middle ; his colour a very fine brown, ribbed with yellow, 

 and much yellower on the belly than the back ; he has two 

 or three whisks also at the tag of his tail, and two little 

 horns upon his head ; his wings, when full grown, are double, 

 and flat down his back, of the same colour, but rather darker 

 than his body, and longer than it, though he makes but little 

 use of them ; for you shall rarely see him flying, though 

 often swimming and paddling with several feet he has under 

 his belly, upon the water, without stirring a wing ; but the 

 drake will mount steeple-high into the air, though he is to 

 be found upon flags and grass too, and indeed everywhere, 

 high and low, near the river ; there being so many of them 

 in their season as, were they not a very inoffensive insect, 

 would look like a plague ; and these drakes, since I forgot 

 to tell you before, I will tell you here, are taken by the fish 

 to that incredible degree that, upon a calm day, you shall 

 see the still deeps continually all over circles by the fishes 

 rising, who will gorge themselves with those flics, till they 

 purge again out of their gills ; and the trouts are at that 

 time so lusty and strong, that one of eight or ten inches 

 long will then more struggle and tug, and more endanger 

 your tackle, than one twice as big in winter. But pardon 

 this digression. 



This stone-fly, then, we dape or dibble with, as with the 

 drake ; but with this difference, that whereas the green 

 drake is common both to stream and still, and to all hours 



