WALfON TO Tilt READER. 



is said by many, that in fly-fishing for a Trout, the angler 

 must observe his twelve several flies for the twelve months 

 of the year: I say, he that follows that rule, shall be as 

 sure to catch fish, and be as wise, as he that makes hay by 

 the fair days in an almanack, and no surer ;for these very 

 flies that used to appear about and on the water in one 

 month of the year, may the following year come almost 

 a month sooner or later, as the same year proves colder 

 or hotter : and yet, in the following DISCOURSE, I have set 

 down the twelve flies that are iti reputation with many 

 anglers; and they may serve to give, him some observations 

 concerning them. And he may note, that there are in 

 WALES, and other countries, peculiar flies, proper to the 

 particular place or country ; ana* doubtless, unless a man 

 makes a fly to counterfeit that very fly in that place, he is 

 like to lose his labour, or much of it; but for the generality, 

 three or fow flies, neat and rightly made, and not too big, 

 serve for a Trout in most rivers, all the summer. And for 

 winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanack out of 

 date! And of these, because as no man is born an artist, 

 so no man is born an angler, I thought flt to give thee this 

 notice. 



When I have told the reader, that in this fifth 1 impression 

 there are many enlargements, gathered both by my own 

 observation, and the communication with friends, I shall 

 stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to 

 read this following discourse; and that, if he be an honest 

 angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing. 



I. W. 



(1) The fifth, as it is the last of the editions published in the author's life- 

 time, has been carefully followed in the present publication. Srr the Authoi's 

 Lift. 



