wynge and under
the tayle.'

Walton has:--

'The first is the dun fly in March: the body is made of dun wool, the
wings of the partridge's feathers. The second is another dun fly: the
body of black wool; and the wings made of the black drake's feathers,
and of the feathers under his tail.'

Again, the _Treatise_ has:--

_Auguste_. The drake fly. The body of black wull and lappyd abowte
wyth blacke sylke: winges of the mayle of the blacke drake wyth a
blacke heed.'

Walton has:--

'The twelfth is the dark drake-fly, good in August: the body made with
black wool, lapt about with black silk, his wings are made with the
mail of the black drake, with a black head.'

This is word for word a transcript of the fifteenth century _Treatise_.
But Izaak cites, not the ancient _Treatise_, but Mr. Thomas Barker. {6}
Barker, in fact, gives many more, and more variegated flies than Izaak
offers in the jury of twelve which he rendered, from the old _Treatise_,
into modern English. Sir Harris Nicolas says that the jury is from
Leonard Mascall's _Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line_ (London, 1609),
but Mascall merely stole from the fifteenth-century book. In Cotton's
practice, and that of _The Angler's Vade Mecum_ (1681), flies were as
numerous as among ourselves, and had, in many cases, the same names.
Walton absurdly bids us 'let no part of the line touch the water, but the
fly only.' Barker says, 'Let the fly light first into the water.' Both
men insist on fishing down stream, which is, of course, the opposite of
the true art, for fish lie with their heads up stream, and trout are best
approached from behind. Cotton admits of fishing both up and down, as
the wind and stream may serve: and, of course, in heavy water, in
Scotland, this is all very well. But none of the old anglers, to my
knowledge, was a dry-fly fisher, and Izaak was no fly-fisher at all. He
took what he said from Mascall, who took it from the old _Treatise_, in
which, it is probable, Walton read, and followed the pleasant and to him
congenial spirit of the mediaeval angler. All these writers tooled with
huge rods, fifteen or eighteen feet in length, and Izaak had apparently
never used a reel. For salmon, he says, 'some use a wheel about the
middle of their rods or near their hand, which is to be observed better
by seeing one of them, than by a large demonstration of words.'

Mr. Westwood has made a catalogue of boo