418 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART II. 



play with their wings for a quarter of an hour, or more : 

 but you must have a care to keep their wings dry, both from 

 the water, and also that your fingers be not wet when you 

 take them out to bait them ; for then your bait is spoiled. 



Having now told you how to angle with this fly alive, I 

 am now to tell you next, how to make an artificial fly, that 

 will so perfectly resemble him, as to be taken in a rough 

 windy day when no flies can lie upon the water, nor are to 

 be found about the banks and sides of the river, to a wonder ; 

 and with which you shall certainly kill the best trout and 

 grayling in the river. 



The artificial Green-drake, 1 then, is made upon a large 



hook; the dubbing, camel's 

 hair, bright bear's hair, the 

 soft down that is combed from 

 a hog's bristles and yellow 

 camlet, well mixed together ; 

 ' the body long, and ribbed 

 about with green silk, or 

 rather yellow, waxed with 

 green wax, the whisks of the 

 tail, of the long hairs of sables, 

 or fitchet, and the wings of the white-gray feather of a 

 mallard dyed yellow ; which also is to be dyed thus. 



Take the root of a barbary-tree, and shave it, and put to 

 it woody viss, with as much alum as a walnut, and boil your 

 feathers in it with rain-water ; and they will be of a very 

 fine yellow. 



I have now done with the green-drake ; excepting to tell 

 you, that he is taken at all hours during his season, 1 whilst 

 there is any day upon the sky : and with a made fly 1 once 

 took, ten days after he was absolutely gone, in a cloudy day, 

 after a shower, and in a whistling wind, five-and-thirty very 

 great trouts and graylings, betwixt five and eight of the 

 clock in the evening ; and had no less than five or six flies, 



1 GUEEN-DRAKE, or MAY-FLY. The body of seal's fur or yellow mohair, 

 a little fox-cub down, and hog's wool, or light-brown from a Turkey carpet, 

 mixed : warp with pale-yellow, or red cock's hackle, under the wings ; 

 wings, of a mallard's feather, dyed yellow : three wisks in his tail from 

 a sable muff. Taken all day, but chiefly from tivj to four in the after- 

 noon. H. 



