110 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



come to describe the other flies taken in the month 

 of May, I will here give you every particular con- 

 cerning it. He comes on the water the twentieth 

 of that month, and is taken all day long, but best 

 from two to four in the evening, and kills most 

 fish from the end of May to the ninth of June. 



nOW TO DYE THE MALLARDS fEATHER YELLOW. 



Take the root of a Barbary tree, and shave it, 

 and put to it woody viss, with as much allum as a 

 walnut, and boil your feathers in it with rain wa- 

 ter, and they will be of a fine yellow ; or get a lit- 

 tle weld and recou, and boil your feathers with 

 them, and it will answer the same purpose. 



CHAP. III. 



The Names and the best Manner of dubbing the diff- 

 erent artificial Flies 5 which are generally known , 

 and will kill Fishes on any Water, from the Be- 

 ginning of March to the End of September. 



SHALL begin fly-fishing with the month of 

 March, that being soon enough to throw 

 a fly on the water; nay, in some years is too 

 soon, owing to the backwardness of the sea- 

 son. The inclemency of the weather, before 

 that time, renders the attempt not only un- 

 pleasant, but fruitless, to endeavour to take 

 fishes with the fly ; and the risk a man runs of im- 

 pairing his health, before the weather is mild and 

 temperate, forms an objection more strongly 



