APPENDIX. 363 



No. II. 



[Referred to from Part 11. page 317, n.] 



FEBRUARY. PEACOCK HACKLE. Peacock's herl 

 alone, or interchanged with ostrich herl; warping, red 

 silk; red cock's hackle over all. It may be varied by a 

 black cock's hackle and silver twist. Taken chiefly from 

 nine to eleven in the morning, and from one to three in 

 the afternoon. 



This, and the several other hackles which we have here 

 and hereafter described, being most tempting baits, should 

 always be first tried when the angler comes to a strange 

 river ; and not changed till he has found out, and is certain, 

 what particular fly is upon the water. 



MARCH. GREEN PEACOCK HACKLE. Greenish herl 

 of a peacock; warping, green silk; a black hackle over all. 

 Taken from eight to eleven in the morning. 



ASH-COLOURED DUN. Dub with the roots of a fox- 

 cub's tail; warp with pale yellow silk; wing, of the pale 

 part of a starling's feather. Taken from eight to eleven, 

 and from one to three. 



This fly, which is also called the VIOLET DUN, and 

 BLUE DUN, is to be found on almost every river; some 

 particulars of it have been mentioned in the note. Part II. 

 p. 318; but here follow some observations on it, which 

 deserve to be attended to. It varies much in its colour, 

 according to the season of the year: in March and Sep- 

 tember it is called, and that very properly, the Violet Dun, 

 for it has often that hue ; and therefore in the passage 

 above referred to we have directed the mixing blue-violet 

 crewel with the fox-cub down. In April it assumes a 

 pale-ash colour; and in May is of a beautiful lemon- 

 colour, both body and wings. In June and July it is blue- 

 black ; and from July it insensibly varies, till it becomes 

 of its primitive colour, violet dun, which it never fails to 

 do by September. 



APRIL. PEARL-COLOUR, or HERON DUN. Dub with 

 the yellowish or ash-coloured herl of a heron ; warp 

 with ash-coloured silk. Wing, from the short feather of 

 a heron, or from a coot's wing of an ash-colour. Morning 

 and afternoon. 



