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(for in a whistling wind, a made-fly, in the deep, is better,) 

 and rarely, but early and late, it not being so proper for the 

 mid-time of the day ; though a great Grayling will then take 

 it very well in a sharp stream, and here and there, a Trout 

 too, but much better toward eight, nine, ten, or eleven of 

 the clock at night, at which time also the best fish rise, 

 and the later the better, provided you can see your fly ; 

 and when you cannot, a made-fly will murder, which is to 

 be made thus : the dubbing, of bear's dun with a little 

 brown and yellow camlet very well mixt, but so placed 

 that your fly may be more yellow on the belly and towards 

 the tail, underneath, than in any other part; and you are 

 to place two or three hairs of a black cat's beard on the 

 top of the hook, in your arming, so as to be turned up 

 when you warp on your dubbing, and to stand almost up- 

 right, and staring one from another ; and note, that your 

 fly is to be ribbed with yellow silk; and the wings long, 

 and very large, of the dark grey feather of a mallard. 



14. The next May-fly is the BLACK-FLY; made with 

 a black body, of the whirl of an ostrich-feather, ribbed 

 with silver-twist, and the black hackle of a cock over all; 

 and is a killing fly, but not to be named with either of the 

 other. 



15. The last May -fly (that is of the four pretenders, 1 ) 

 is the LITTLE YELLOW MAY-FLY; in shape exactly the 

 same with the Green-Drake, but a very little one, and of 

 as bright a yellow as can be seen : which is made of a 

 bright yellow camlet, and the wings of a white-grey fea- 

 ther died yellow. ' 



16. The last fly for this month, (and which continues 

 all June, though it comes in the middle of May,} is the 

 fly called the CAMLET-FLY, in shape like a moth, with 

 fine diapered or -water wings, and with which (as I told 



(1) See p. 323. 



