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a live one, in the same manner as is now 

 done with spinning baits. Fly-fishing is 

 first mentioned by Aelian, who flourished 

 A.D. 225, about twenty years later than 

 Oppian. In the fifteenth book of his History 

 of Animals, he says, that a fish of varied 

 color is taken in the river Austrseum, be- 

 tween Beroe and Thessalonica. This fish, 

 the name of which, he says, is to be learnt 

 from the Macedonian inhabitants, I con- 

 ceive to have been a species of trout. He 

 also describes a kind of fly which frequents 

 the river, and is called by the natives 

 " nrTrapov," which may be translated " the 

 bristle-tail," a name by which the several 

 species of hair-tailed ephemerae, or May- 

 flies, are still known in many parts of Eng- 

 land. Aelian then proceeds to relate, that 

 as this fly is greedily preyed on by the 

 above mentioned fish, the skilful fisherman 

 dresses an imitation of it on his hook, forming 

 the body of purple-colored wool, and adding 

 two yellow feathers of a cock's hackle for 

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