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the surface of the water : it is to.be fished with in 

 cold stormy days, being then most plentiful on 

 the water ; but in warm gloomy days make use 

 of the Pale Blue. The wings are made of a blue 

 grizzled cock's hackle, and the body of the blue 

 part of squirrel's fur, mixed with a little yellow 

 mohair. The hook, No. 7. 



The three last-mentioned flies conclude the 

 season for fly-fishing. From the middle of May 

 tili Aug ^t you will find great variety of files 

 and gnats upon the wat^r every day ; so that you 

 must observe it as a peneial rule to fish with the 

 first fly 7 that comes on in the morning; that fly 

 being the first which is on the water in the day 

 that is first mentioned in every month, and then 

 you will sec the other flies and gnats coming 

 down every dav in regular succession, every 

 succeeding day till August. The ^reut number 

 of flies am! insects that are on the water all the 

 hot summer months, and the great variety of 

 food that the fi>hes have, both at top and bot- 

 tom, makes them very nice, and more difficult 

 to be taken than in the spring or in the autumn. 

 The greal number of flies and insects which are 

 on the water all the summer months, totally 

 disappear about the middle of August, so that 

 your diversion is as certain with ilie three au- 

 tumnal flies, viz. the Little Whirling Blue, the 

 Pale Blue, and the Willow-fly, as with the 

 thiee spring riies, which are the Red Hy, the 

 Blue Dun, and the Brown. In these two sea- 

 sons of the year, if the weather is favourable, 

 and water in order, you will find your sport 

 more certain and regular than in the hotter 

 months. This last list of flies may be deemed 



