ged with a
Mallards feather, according to the fancy of the Angler. There is
another called the Oak-Flie, which is made of Orange colour Cruell and
black, with a browne wing; imitate that: Another Flie, the body made
with the strain of a Pea-Cocks feather, which is very good in a
bright day: The Grasse-hopper which is green imitate that; the smaller
the Flies be made, and of indifferent small hooks, they are the
better; these sorts I have set downe, will serve all the year long,
observing the times and seasons: Note, the lightest of your Flies for
cloudy and darknesse, and the darkest of your Flies for lightnesse,
and the rest for indifferent times; that a mans owne Judgement, with
some experience and discretion must guide him: If he mean to kill
Fish, he must alter his Flies according to these directions. Now, of
late, I have found, that Hogs-wooll, of severall colours, makes good
grounds; and the wooll of a red Heyfer makes a good body: And Bears
wool makes a good ground; so I now work much of them, and it procureth
very much sport.

The naturall Flie is sure Angling, and will kill great store of Trouts
with much pleasure: As for the May-Flie, you shall have them always
playing at the River side, especially against Raine. The Oake-Flie is
to bee had on the butt of an Oake, or an Ash, from the beginning of
_May_ to the end of _August_: it is a brownish Flie, and stands
alwayes with his head towards the root of the tree, very easie to be
found: The small black Flie is to be had one evry Hawthorn Bush, after
the buds be come forth: Your Grasse-hopper, which is green, is to be
had in any Medow of Grasse in _June_ or _July_: with these Flies, you
must Angle with such a Rod as you Angle with the ground Bait; the Line
must not be so long as the Rod: with drawing your flie, as you finde
convenient in your Angling. When you come to deep waters that stand
somewhat still, make your Line some two yards long, or thereabout, and
dop your Flie behinde a bush, which Angling I have had good sport at;
we call it doping.

A Lord lately sent to me at Sun going down, to provide him a good dish
of Trouts against the next morning by six of the Clock: I went to the
door to see how the wains of the Aire were like to prove, and returned
answer, that I doubted not but to be provided (God willing) at my time
appointed. I went presently to the River, and it proved very dark; I
drew out a Line of three silkes and three hairs twisted for the
uppe