

THE DRTFFIELD ANGLER. l63 



ped round five times, sloping, with silver 

 twist, and a black cock's hackle over all. A 

 good fly the latter end of May, and all June ; 

 the hook No. 8. A dropper. 



No. 7. The woodcock-fly. Made of brown 

 spaniel's ear, and a little of the squirrel's fur, 

 well mixed, with two whisks af the mallard's 

 copper-coloured feather from behind the 

 wing for forks ; and a small tinged hackle, 

 with one side taken off, and lapped neatly 

 sloping to the tail, and fasten as observed 

 before ; and with your needle put the body 

 and hackle in order; the hook No. 8 or 9. 

 Taken from the twentieth of this month, to 

 the latter end of August, when there is any 

 \yind stirring, and the best fly we 



JUNE. 



No. 1. The grizzle- hackle. This fly fol- 

 lows the green and grey ones, and is a good 

 fly during its season ; it has no wings ; the 

 body, a feather from the pheasant's tail, of a 



