428 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART II. 



ISrOTEMBER. 



The same flies that were taken in February, are taken 

 this month also. 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no 

 more than they do in January : but yet, if the 

 weather be warm, as I have known it sometimes 

 in my life to be, even in this cold country, where it is least 

 expected, then a brown that looks red in the hand, and 

 yellowish betwixt your eye and the sun, will both raise and 

 kill in a clear water, and free from snow-broth : but, at the 

 best, 'tis hardly worth a man's labour. 1 



And now, sir, I have done with fly-fishing, or angling at 

 the top ; excepting once more to tell you, that of all these, 

 and I have named you a great many very killing-flies, none 

 are fit to be compared with the drake and stone-fly, both for 



a mouse, for body and head, warped with sad ash-coloured silk ; wings, 

 of a sad-coloured shepstare's quill-feather. 



LARGE FOSTID LIGHT BROWN. The body, of light calf or cow's hair, or 

 seal's fur dyed of the colour : warp with ruddy or orange- coloured silk ; 

 wing, of a ruddy brown chicken, large and long. A killing fly in a 

 morning. This fly is much upon the Lea, and is much ruddier there thau 

 elsewhere. In the Thames I have caught with it dace of the largest size, 

 and in great numbers. H. 



1 The reader may rest assured, that with some or other of these flies 

 especially with the palmers or hackles, the great dun, dark-brown, early 

 (and late) bright-bi'own, the black gnat, yellow dun, great whirling dun, 

 dun-cut, green and gray drake, camlet-fly, cowdung-fly, little ant-fly, 

 badger-fly, and fern-fly he shall catch trout, grayling, chub, and dace, in 

 any water in England or Wales ; always remembering, that in a strange 

 water he first tries the plain, gold, silver, and peacock hackle. Of the 

 truth of this he need not doubt, when he is told that, in the year 1754, a 

 gentleman, now living who went into Wales to fish with the flies last 

 above-mentioned, made as above is directed did, in about six weeks' time, 

 kill near a thousand brace of trout and grayling, as appeared to him by an 

 account in writing which he kept of each day's success. II. 



