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cecd three or four haires; but if you can attain to Angle with one haire, you will have more rifes, and catch more fish. Now you must bee fure not to cumber yourfelfe with too long a Line, as most do: and before you begin to angle, caft to have the wind on your back, and the Sun (if it fhines) to be before you, and to fish down the streame) and carry the point or top of the Rod downeward; by which meanes the fhadow of your felfe, and Rod too will be the leaft offenfive to the Fish, for the fight of any fhadow amazes the fish and spoiles your fport, of which you must take a great

care.

In the middle of March (till which time a man fhould not in honestie catch a Trout) or in April,if the weather be dark,or a little windy, or cloudie,the best fishing

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is with the Palmer-worm, of which 1 last spoke to you; but of these there be divers kinds, or at leaft of divers colours, these and the May-fly are the ground of all fly-Angling,which are to be thus made:

First you must arm your hook, with the line in the infide of it; then take your Sciffers and cut fo much of a browne Malards feather as in your own reason wil make the wings of it, you having withall regard to the bigness or littleness of your hook, then lay the outmost part of your feather next to your hook,then the point of your feather next the fhank of your hook; and having so done, whip it three or four times about the hook with the fame Silk, with which your hook was armed, and having made the Silk fast, take the hackel of a Cock or Capons neck, or a Plovers top,which is usually better; take off the one fide of the feather, and then take the hackel, Silk

or

you

or Crewel, Gold or Silver thred, make these faft at the bent of the hook, that isto fay, below your arming) then you must take the hackel, the filver or gold thred, and work it up to the wings, shifting or ftil removing your fingers as you turn the Silk about the hook: and still looking at every stop or turne that your gold, or what materials foever make your Fly of, do lye right and neatly; and if you find they do fo, then when you have made the head, make all faft, and then work your hackel up to the head, and make that fait; and then with a needle or pin divide the wing into two, and then with the arming Silk whip it about cross-wayes betwixt the wings, and then with your thumb you must turn the point of the feather towards the bent of the hook, and then work three or four times about the fhank of the hook and then view the proportion, and if all be neat, and

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to your liking, fasten.

I confefs, no direction can be given to make a man of a dull capacity able to make a flye well; and yet I know,this,with a little practice, wil help and ingenuous Angler in a good degree; but to fee a fly made by another, is the best teaching to make it, and then an ingenuous Angler may walk by the River and mark what fly falls on the water that day, and catch one of them, if he see the Trouts leap at a fly of that kind, and having alwaies hooks ready hung with him, and having a bag also, alwaies with him with Bears hair, or the hair of a brown or fad coloured Heifer,hackels of a Cock or Capon, feveral coloured Silk and Crewel to make the body of the fly, the feathers of a Drakes he ad, black or brown fheeps wool,or Hogs wool, or hair, thred of Gold, and of filver; filk of several colours (especially fad coloured to make the head:) and

there

there be also other colour'd feathers both of birds and of peckled fowl. Isay,having those with him in a bag, and trying to make a flie, though he miss at first,yet shal he at laft hit it better, even to a perfection which none can well teach him; and if he hit to make his flie right, and have the luck to hit alfo where there is store of trouts, and a right wind, he fhall catch fuch store of them, as will encourage him to grow more and more in love with the Art of flie-making.

Viat. But my loving Master, if any wind will not ferve, then I wish I were in Lapland, to buy a good wind of one of the honeft witches, that fell fo many winds, and so cheap.

Pifc. Marry Scholer, but I would not be there, nor indeed from under this tree; for look how it begins to rain, and by the clouds (if I mistake not we shall presently have a smoa

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