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THE BLUE GNAT 



Comes on the water about the same time as 

 the spinners, (vide list the Ut under June) and 

 continues on about a fortnight : if the water is 

 low and fine the fishes take them very well, and 

 as long as they remain on the water. The wings 

 of this gnat are made with a small pale blue 

 cock's hackle, and the body with light blue fur, 

 mixed with a little yellow mohair. The hook, 

 No. 8 or Q. 



THE LARGE RED ANT FLY 



Comes on about the middle of June, if hot and 

 sultry weather, and continues on till about the 

 J5th or 16th of July, appearing mostly in hot, 

 close, gloomy days : it is to be fished with from 

 about eleven o'clock in the forenoon till about 

 six in the evening ; then make use of the even- 

 ing flies described before. The ant-flies, when 

 in perfection, are great killers, and all sorts of 

 fishes that rise at flies are very fond of them ; 

 and you may take fish with them in dead heavy 

 waters, as well as in strea-ms. The wings of this 

 fly are made from a feather out of a stare's wing, 

 and the body of peacock's her!, made pretty- 

 large at the tail, and fine towards the wing, with 

 a fine ginger-coloured cock's hackle wmpt twice 

 or thrice under the but of the wings. The hook 

 No. 8. 



THE LARGE BLACK ANT FLY 



Comes on at the same time with the red, and 

 is to be fished with at the same time, and after 



