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hardly be too white ; and he is taken about the tenth of this 

 month, and lasteth till the four-and -twentieth. 



6. From the tenth of this month also, till towards the 

 end, is taken a little Black G-nat : the dubbing either of the 

 fur of a black water-dog, or the down of a young black 

 water-coot ; the wings of the male of a mallard, as white as 

 may be ; the body as little as you can possibly make it, and 

 the wings as short as his body. 



7. From the sixteenth of this month also, to the end of it, 

 we use a Bright Brown ; the dubbing for which is to be had 

 out of a skinner's lime-pits, and of the hair of an abortive 

 calf, which the lime will turn to be so bright as to shine like 

 gold : for the wings of this fly, the feather of a brown hen 

 is best : which fly is also taken till the tenth of April. 1 



APRIL. 



All the same hackles and flies that were taken in March, 

 will be taken in this month also ; with this distinction only 

 concerning the flies, that all the browns be lapped with red 

 silk, and the duns with yellow. 



1. To these a small Bright Brown, made of spaniel's fur, 

 with a light gray wing, in a bright day and a clear water, is 

 very well taken. 



2. "We have too a little Dark Brown ; 2 the dubbing of 



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 ash-coloured dun 

 and blue dun, is produced from a cadis ; it is so very small, that No. 9 

 hook is full big for it. Its shape is exactly that of the green -drake. So 

 early as February they will drop on the water before eight in the morning ; 

 and trout, even of the largest size, will rise at them eagerly. H. 



1 To this March list may be added from Hofland the following favourite 

 and killing flies : 



HOFLAND'S FANCY. Wings, woodcock's tail ; legs, red hackle ; body, 

 reddish dark-brown silk ; tail, two or three strands of the red hackle. 

 Hook, No. 10. This is a standard fly for all the trout-streams of the 

 metropolitan counties. 



COOH-Y-BONDDHU. Legs and wings, red and black, or coch-y-bonddhu 

 hackle ; body, peacock's herl, gold tip ; and hooks 8 or 9, sometimes 12. 



THE MARCH-BROWN. Wings, tail-feather of the partridge; body, fur 

 from the hare's ear, ribbed with olive silk ; legs, partridge hackle ; tail, 

 two or three strands of the partridge feather; hooks, 8 or 9. ED. 



2 DARK BROWN. Dub with the hair of a dark brown spaniel or calf, 

 that looks ruddy by being exposed to wind and weather ; warp with 



