10 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLEH, 



one day he will despise the next, which it must 

 be owned is a very mortifying circumstance 

 to an angler. But what often exercises his 

 patience is to see the fish sporting on the sur- 

 face of the water and not be able to tempt 

 him with any of his baits : however he gene- 

 rally bites best from six o'clock in the morn- 

 ing till nine, and from three to eight in the 

 evening through the months of May, June, 

 July, and August, especially if the water hap- 

 pens to be clear, and is stirred by a good 

 breeze of wind ; and there will be still greater 

 likelihood of success if the wind and stream 

 set contrary ways. 



I shall here notice one particular fly which 

 they are remarkably fond of, called the horse- 

 leech fly, which although a native of the lat- 

 ter months they will take the resemblance of 

 it early in the spring ; they are of various 

 colours, have great heads, large bodies, very 

 long tails, and two pair of wings placed be- 

 hind each other : in preparing the artificial 

 ones, however, you may vary the colours ; 



