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feather, which is very good in a bright day : The Grasse- 

 hopper which is green imitate that ; the smaller the Flies 

 be made, and of indifferent small hooks, they are the bet- 

 ter ; these sorts I have set downe, will serve all the year 

 long, observing the times and seasons : Note, the lightest 

 of your Flies for cloudy and darknesse, and the darkest 

 of your Flies for lightnesse, and the rest for indifferent 

 times; that a mans owne Judgement, with some experience 

 and discretion must guide him : If he mean to kill Fish, 

 he must alter his Flies according to these directions. Now, 

 of late, I have found, that Hogs-wooll, of severall colours, 

 makes good grounds ; and the wooll of a red Heyfer makes 

 a good body : And Bears wool makes a good ground ; so I 

 now. work much of them, and itprocureth very much sport. 



The naturall Flie is sure Angling, and will kill great 

 store of Trouts with much pleasure : As for the May-Flie, 

 you shall have them always playing at the River side, 

 especially against Raine. The Oake-Flie is to bee had on 

 the butt of an Oake, or an Ash, from the beginning of May 

 to the end of August : it is a brownish Flie, and stands 

 alwayes with his head towards the root of the tree, very 

 easie to be found : The small black Flie is to be had one evry 

 Hawthorn Bush, after the buds be come forth : Your 

 Grasse-hopper, which is green, is to be had in any Medow 

 of Grasse in June or July : with these Flies, you must 

 Angle with such a Rod as you Angle with the ground Bait ; 

 the Line must not be so long as the Rod : with drawing 

 your flie, as you finde convenient in your Angling. When 

 you come to deep waters that stand somewhat still, make 

 your Line some two yards long, or thereabout, and dop 

 your Flie behinde a bush, which Angling I have had good 

 sport at ; we call it doping. 



A Lord lately sent to me at Sun going down, to provide 

 him a good dish of Trouts against the next morning by. six of 

 the Clock : I went to the door to see how the wains of the 

 Aire were like to prove, and returned answer, that I doubted 

 not but to be provided (God willing) at my time appointed. 

 I went presently to the River, and it proved very dark ; 

 I drew out a Line of three silkes and three hairs twisted for 

 the uppermost part, and a Line of two silks and two 



