ANGLING. 



a greenish fly, the body made of black wool, with 

 a yellow list on either side, the wings taken off the 

 wing of a buzzard, bound with black broken hemp : 

 5tk, The moorish fly, the body made of dusky wool, 

 and the wings of the blackish mail of a drake : 

 6tk, The tawny fly, in great repute till the middle of 

 June ; the body made of tawny wool, the wings 

 contrary, one against another, composed of the 

 whitish mail of a white drake : 7th, For July, the 

 wasp fly, the body made of black wool, cast about 

 with yellow silk, and the wings of drakes 1 feathers : 

 8tk, The steel fly, approved in the middle of July ; 

 the body made with greenish wool, cast about with 

 the feathers of a peacock's tail, and the wings made 

 of those of a buzzard : 9tk, For August, the drake 

 fly, the body made with black wool, cast about with 

 black silk, the wings of the mail of a black drake, 

 with a black head. 



When rivers are very low and clear, from a long 

 continuance of summer drought, it has been re- 

 commended to use a pair of wings made from the 

 feather of a landrail, or the mottled feather of a 

 teal, with a well-cleaned gentle fixed upon the 

 hook. During a similar condition of the water, 

 even when no wind is stirring, and the sun shining 

 in its greatest lustre, trouts may be taken with a 

 small wren's tail, grouse, smoky dun, or black hackles, 

 the angler fishing straight down the water, by the 

 sides of streams and banks, and keeping well out 

 of sight, with as long a line as can be neatly 

 managed, and the foot-lengths very fine. At these 

 times the fish may be often seen with their dorsal 



