THE LITTLE IRON-BLUE FLY. 125 



THE BLACK CATERPILLAR 



Comes on about the beginning of May, and 

 continues on about a fortnight, and is to be fished 

 with after hot sun-shin}* mornings; if winds and 

 clouds appear, they then grow weak for want of 

 the sun, ana fall upon the waters- in great quan- 

 tities. The Wings are made from a feather out 

 of a jav's wing, the body of an ostrich's fea- 

 ther, whieh is preferable to the plover's, and fine 

 black cock's hackle wrapt over the body. It is 

 a very killing ily in small brooks. The hook, 



No. 7. 



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TJ1E LITTLE JROX-BLUE FLY 



Comes on about the seventh of Mav, and con- 

 tinues on til! the middle of June, hi cold stormy 

 days thc'y come down the waters in great quan- 

 tises, hut in warm d.iys there are but few lobe 

 seen. As it swims down the water, its wings 

 stand upright on its back ; its tail is forked, and 

 the colour of its wings: it is a r.e.it curious Hy, 

 and cannot be made too tine ; it is to be n\b,d 

 with from about eleven o'clock in the forenoon 

 till three in the afternoon. When the^e flies are 

 on, the fishes re-fuse every other sort, and take 

 these only, every sort of tish being fond of them. 

 The wings are m.^de from a cormorant's feather 

 that grows under the wing, or off the feather of 

 a dark-blue hen, that grows on the body, under 

 the wings; the body is nude of water-nit's fur, 

 ribbed with yellow silk, and a sooty blue hackle 

 of a cock wrapt over the body. The hook, No 

 8 or 9. 



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