A LIST OF ARTIFICIAL FLIES 



For taking Trout, #c. ; the Materials of which they 

 are made, and the Proper Seasons to use them. 



" THE waters not too high, too thick, too clear, 

 When Sol's bright beams do not at all appear, 

 Nor yet the wind too low, nor over high ; 

 On purling streams, if then you'll cast the fly 

 That right in season is, and of true make, 

 Well like to such, the Trout now best will take ; 

 I dare engage, have you but any skill, 

 You will not fail the' nimble Trout to kill." 



1;LL flies come in earlier or later every year, and 

 every month of the year, according to the cold- 

 ness or warmth of the season. Sometimes fish 

 change their flies several times in a day, and in 

 the same part of the river ; and that fly which is taken in 

 one part of a river may not be taken in another part of the 

 same river, and at np great distance of place neither. 



A little time before any sort of fly goes out and dies, 

 it comes on rivers in great numbers, and then is greedily 

 taken by the fish, who do not change till that sort be 

 gone. Then they take many kinds until another is of great 

 plenty, when they forsake all for that which is .most nume- 

 rous, and in greatest perfection, and change not again until 

 they have glutted themselves as before ; and this is their 

 course through the season. 



