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nams as long as the browns continue: about five 

 o'clock in the evening you may use the granams 

 again with success, the browns having then to- 

 tally disappeared for that day. The granam-fly 

 is a four- winged fly : as it swims down the wa- 

 ter its wings lie flat on its back ; it has a small 

 bunch of eggs, of a green colour, which gives it 

 the name of the Green.tail fly : as soon as it lights 

 on the water, it drops its eggs ; it is of short 

 duration, not lasting above a week, and then 

 totally disappears for that year. The wings are 

 made from a feather out of the wing of a par- 

 tridge or pheasant, which is shaded like the wing 

 of the fly; the body is made of the fur from a 

 hare's face, or ear, and a grizzled hackle of a 

 cock wrapt under the but of the wings. The 

 hook No. 8. 



THE SPIDER FLY 



-Comes on about the twentieth of April, if the 

 \weather is warm, and continues on about a fort- 

 night : they are bred in beds of gravel by the 

 water s'cic, where you may find them in bunches 

 engendering, to prepare for their production the 

 next vear: in cold and stormy days they hide 

 themselves in the gravel, not being able to endure 

 cold. You mav fish with it from sun rise till sun 

 set: being a very k.ll ng fly, too much cannot 

 be said in its praise. The wings are made from 

 a woodcock's feather, out of the but of the wing ; 

 the body of lead-coloured silk, with a black 

 cock's hackle \^rapt twice or thrice under the 

 wings. 1 his fly cannot be made too fine. The 

 hook, No. 8 or 9- 



