come to describe the other flies taken in the month of May, I will here give you every particular concerning it. He comes on the water the twentieth of that month, and is taken all day long, but best from two to four in the evening, and kills most fish from the end of May to the ninth of June.

HOW TO DYE THE MALLard's feathER YELLOW,

Take the root of a Barbary tree, and shave it, and put to it woody viss, with as much allum as a walnut, and boil your feathers in it with rain water, and they will be of a fine yellow; or get a little weld and recou, and boil your feathers with them, and it will answer the same purpose.

CHAP.. III.

The Names and the best Manner of dubbing the diff erent artificial Flies, which are generally known, and will kill Fishes on any Water, from the Beginning of March to the End of September.

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SHALL begin fly-fishing with the month of March, that being soon enough to throw a fly on the water; nay, in some years is too soon, owing to the backwardness of the season. The inclemency of the weather, before that time, renders the attempt not only unpleasant, but fruitless, to endeavour to take fishes with the fly; and the risk a man runs of impairing his health, before the weather is mild and temperate, forms an objection more strongly

against it. Let an angler be ever so fond of flyfishing, he will certainly have enough, perhaps a satiety, between the months of March and September; besides the mind of man is fond of variety, and there are amusements of the field very pleasant and conducive to health; for I myself am entirely of Terence's opinion that

Ad prime in vita esse utile, ut nequid nimis.

MARCH.

THE PALMERS.

1. The Dark Brown.. 2. The Great Whirling Dun.

3. The Early Bright Brown.

4. The Thorn, or Hawthorn Tree-Fly.

5. The Blue Dun.

6. The Little Black Gnat. 7. The late bright Brown.

1. Dubbed with the brown hair off the shank of a brindled cow, and the grey feather of a drake for wings.

2. Dubbed with the fur from the bottom of a squirrel's tail, and the wings off the grey feather of a drake. Or, dubbed with squirrel's fur, mixed with about a sixth part of fine hog's down, the wings of a pale orange colour, taken from the quill feather off a ruddy hen, the head to be fastened with ash-coloured silk, and a red unbarbed cock's hackle may be warped under the wings, and a turn or two lower towards his tail. This is a very killing fly, and is taken best late in the evening of a blustering warm day.

3. Dubbed with the brown hair off a spaniel, taken from behind the ear, or with that off a red

cow's flank; the wings, the grey feather off a wild drake.

4. Dubbed with seal's fur, dyed a perfect black, mixed with a little Isabella-coloured mohair, the body made small, and the wings off a bright mallard's feather. A killing fly.

5. Dubbed with the down combed from the neck of a black greyhound, or the roots of a foxcub's-tail, mixed with a little blue voilet worsted,, upon a hook, the size No. 9 the wings off the pale part of a starling's feather. This fly is a kil ling fly, and is taken from eight to eleven, and from one to three.

6 Dubbed with black mohair, upon a hook the size No. 9, and the wings the lightest part off a starling's feather.

7. Dubbed with the hair off a cow, or calf's hide, which has been drest in a skinner's limepit; if you hold it between your eyes and the sun, it will appear of a bright gold, or amber colour; the wings off a feather of a brown hen.

1. Dubbed on a small hook, No. 8 or 9, with brown seal's fur, or with brown spaniel's fur, that looks ruddy, by being exposed to the weather, mixed with a little violet camlet; warp with yel

low silk, and the wings off the grey feather of a mallard.

Kills best from eight to eleven.

2. Dubbed with dark violet stuff, and a little dun bear's hair mixed with it; the wings off the grey feather of a mallard.

Kills very well from the sixth to the tenth of

this month.

3. Dubbed with fox-cub down, ash-coloured at the roots, next the skin; ribbed about with yellow silk, the wings off a pale grey feather of a mallard. Or, dubbed with the same down, and a little ruddy brown mixed, warped with grey, or ruddy silk, a red hackle under the wings, which must be made from the feather of a land-rail, or ruddy brown chicken, which is better.

This fly comes on the water the twelfth of this month, and is taken in the middle of the day, all the month through, and in blustering weather to the end of June.

4. Dubbed with camel's hair, and marten's yellow fur, mixed together; or with a small quantity of pale yellow cruel, mixed with fox-cub down from the tail, warped with yellow silk; and the wings off a pale starling's feather.

This fly is taken from eight to eleven, and from two to four.

5. Dubbed with blue mohair, and with pink and red colour tammy, mixed, a brown head and light-coloured wings.

This fly is taken all the month two hours before sun-set till twilight.

6. Dubbed with spaniel's fur, the wings the lightest part off a stare's feather.

Taken very well in a bright day and clear

water.

1. Dubbed with bear's hair of a brownish colour, with a little blue and yellow mixed with it; the wings off a brown hen, and two horns at the head from the hairs off a squirrel's tail. Or, dubbed with bear's-cub fur, a little yellow and green cruel mixed with it, warped with yellow or green; wings off a land-rail.

A great killer in the evening of a showery day. 2. Dubbed with dun bear's hair, mixed with a little brown and yellow camlet, so placed that the fly may be more yellow on the belly, and towards the tail, than any where else; place two or three hairs off a black cat's beard on the top of the hook in the arming it, in such a manner that they may be turned up when you warp on the dubbing and stand almost upright, and start one from the other; rib the body with yellow silk, and make the wings very large off the dark grey feathers of a mallard. The hook No. 3.

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This a very great killer, and comes on the water about the middle of April, and continues till the end of June; it is generally used in swift streams, but if there is a good wind stirring it will be taken in the deeps; it is taken but indifferently in the middle of the day, but excellently late and early.