notice, that although many persons have quitted other sports for the amusement of fly-fishing, yet memory does not furnish a single instance of a fly-fisher deserting his occupation, and transferring his preference to any other of the list of rural sports." PISCATOR. CONTENTS. Of the TROUT. His Weight, Colour, Condition, Haunts, &c. Description of a Fishing-hut or Observatory. OF ROD, LINE, AND OTHER TACKLE. The Rod. Line. Reel. End Line. Hooks. Dubbing- Creel. Preparation of the Rod and Line. 25 Art of Throwing. Choice of Weather. State of the Water. Choice of a Fly. Buzz Flies. Rising short, &c. Sudden cessation of Rises, &c. Places to be whipped, &c. Throwing to a Trout just risen. Striking. Killing. Landing. Difference between Trout and Grayling fishing. Introduction. Flies to be used in March. Flies for April. 55 IV. Red Fly.-Blue Dun.-Red Spinner Frontispiece V. Water Cricket.-Great Dark Drone. Cow-dung Fly 64 VI. Peacock Fly.-March Brown.-Great Red Spinner 68 Fly VIII. IX. Gravel Bed.-Grannom.-Yellow Dun XII. Sky Blue.-Fern Fly.-Alder Fly XIV. Marlow Buzz.-Dark Mackerel 104 XV. Pale Evening Dun.-July Dun.-Gold- 108 XVI. Wren Tail.-Red Ant.-Silver Horns 112 XVII. August Dun.-Orange Fly.-Cinnamon Fly 116 XVIII. Blue Bottle.-Whirling Blue Dun.-Little Pale Blue Dun.-Willow Fly 120 XIX. Red Palmer.-Brown Palmer.-Black and Red Palmer 128 VII. Golden Dun Midge.-Sand Fly.-Stone Iron Blue Dun.-Jenny Spinner.-Haw- X. Little Yellow May Dun.-Black Gnat. XI. Turkey Brown.-Little Dark Spinner. XIII. Green Drake.-Grey Drake.-Orange Dun 100 |