THE BLACK CATERPILLAR

Comes on about the beginning of May, and continues on about a fortnight, and is to be fished with after hot sun-shiny mornings; if winds and clouds appear, they then grow weak for want of the sun, and fall upon the waters in great quantities. The wings are made from a feather out of a jay's wing, the body of an ostrich's feather, which is preferable to the plover's, and fine black cock's hackle wrapt over the body. It is a very killing fly in small brooks. The hook, No. 7.

THE LITTLE IRON-BLUE FLY

Comes on about the seventh of May, and continues on till the middle of June. In cold stormy days they come down the waters in great quantities, but in warm days there are but few to be seen. As it swims down the water, its wings stand upright on its back; its tail is forked, and the colour of its wings: it is a neat curious fly, and cannot be made too fine; it is to be fished with from about eleven o'clock in the forenoon till three in the afternoon. When these flies are on, the fishes refuse every other sort, and take these only, every sort of fish being fond of them. The wings are made from a cormorant's feather that grows under the wing, or off the feather of a dark-blue hen, that grows on the body, under the wings; the body is made of water-rat's fur, ribbed with yellow silk, and a sooty blue hackle of a cock wrapt over the body. The book, No...

8 or 9.

THE YELLOW SALLY FLY

Comes on about the twentieth of May, and continues on till about the tenth or twelfth of June. It is a four-winged fly ; as it swims down the water its wings lie flat on its back. The wings are made with a yellow cock's hackle, and the body of marten's fur, taken from the spots under the jaws, which is a fine yellow. It is one of those flies that prepares the fish to look for the May-fly, or Green-drake. The hook, No. 7.

THE OAK, ASH, WOODCOCK, CANNON, OR DOWNHILL FLY,

Comes on about the sixteenth of May, and continues on till about a week in June; it is to be found on the buts of trees, with its head always downwards, which gives it the name of the Downhill fly. It is bred in oak-apples, and is the best of all flies for bobbing at the bush in the natural way, and a good fly for the dab-line, when made artificially. The wings are made from a feather out of the wing of a partridge or woodcock, the body with a bittern's feather, and the head with a little of the brown part of hare's fur. The hook, No. 7.

N. B. Some dub it with black wool and Isabella-coloured mohair, and bright brownish bear's hair, warped on with yellow silk, but the head of an ash colour; others dub it with an orange-tawney and black ground, and others with blackish wool and gold twist; the wings off the brown part of a mallard's feather.

THE SHORN FLY +

Comes on about the same time as the Cannon fiv, and continues on till the latter end of July. They are generally found in mowing grass; it is of the caterpillar kind, has dusky wings of a dark brown colour, with fine clear blue wings under them, wh ch it makes use of in its flight: it is in greatest perfection in June; and, for the time that it continues on the water, is a most excellent killer in rivers or brooks. There are three sorts of them; the one I have described: there is another with a dull red wing, and a third with a dark blue wing, all of which the fish take very well, but the preference must be given to the red sort it is to be fished with any time of the day, from sun-rise to sun-set. The wings are made of a red cock's hackle, with a black list up the middle; the body with a peacock's herl. The book No. 6, if for a river; but if for a dead, heavy, running brook, the fly must be made larger, as on No. 4 or 5.

THE ORL FLY

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Comes on the latter end of May, and continues on till the latter end of June. It is a four-winged fly, generally flutters along the surface of the water, and is what fishes are remarkably fond of; you may fish for it successfully, after the May fly is gone, from four o'clock in the morning till about seven in the evening, at which time the sky-blue comes on; then change it for the sky-blue. The wings of the Orl fly are made with a dark grizzle cock's hackle, and the body of a peacock's herl, worked with dark red silk. The hood No. 6.

THE SKY-COLOURED BLUE

Comes on about the same time as the orl-fly, and continues on till the middle of July. It is a neat, curious, and beautiful fly, its wings are transparent, stand upright upon its back, and are of a fine blue colour; its body is of a pale yellow, its tail forked, and the colour of its wings; it is a fly the fishes take extremely well from seven o'clock in the evening till sun-set.The wings are made from the light blue feather of a hen, the body is made with pale yellow mohair, mixed with light blue fur, and ribbed with a fine cock's hackle, dyed yellow. The hook No. 8.

THE CADIS FLY

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Comes on about the tenth of June; it is a large four-winged fly, of a buff colour, and its body the same colour of its wings it continues on the water till about the middle of July; it is bred from the cod-bait, a curious little insect: while in the state of a grub it is greatly to be admired, the outside husk that it lives in being curiously wrought with gravel or sand. This fly is taken best at the clearing of the water, though I think him a fly worth the least notice of any in the Catalogue, there being many sorts far preferable to it. The wings are made from a feather taken from a buff-coloured hen; the body is made of buff-coloured mohair, and the legs of a pale yellow hackle. The hook No. 6.

THE BLUE GNAT

Comes on the water about the same time as the spinners, (vide list the 1st under June) and continues on about a fortnight: if the water is low and fine the fishes take them very well, and as long as they remain on the water. The wings of this gnat are made with a small pale blue cock's hackle, and the body with light blue fur, mixed with a little yellow mohair. The hook, No. 8 or 9.

THE LARGE RED ANT FLY

Comes on about the middle of June, if hot and sultry weather, and continues on till about the 15th or 16th of July, appearing mostly in hot, close, gloomy days: it is to be fished with from about eleven o'clock in the forenoon till about six in the evening; then make use of the evening flies described before. The ant-flies, when in perfection, are great killers, aud all sorts of fishes that rise at flies are very fond of them; and you may take fish with them in dead heavy waters, as well as in streams. The wings of this fly are made from a feather out of a stare's wing, and the body of peacock's herl, made pretty large at the tail, and fine towards the wing, with a fine ginger-coloured cock's hackle wrapt twice or thrice under the but of the wings. The hook No. 8.

THE LARGE BLACK ANT FLY

Comes on at the same time with the red, and is to be fished with at the same time, and after