Excerpt from The Angler's Vade Mecum: Containing a Descriptive Account of the Water Flies, Their Seasons, and the Kind of Weather That Brings Them Most on the Water; The Whole Represented in Twelve Plates; To Which Is Added, a Description of the Different Baits Used in Angling
The advantage Of a work like this, must be Obvious, not only in forming a selection, but in dressing the Flies. From the difficulty there must be in trusting to the memory for their various tints, every attention has been paid in that respect. As the Flies were painted from when in the full perfection of their 00 lours. There are twelve Plates, etched and coloured by the hand, in order to bring them the nearer to the natural tints. Various names are given to the Water Flies, in different parts of the Country; I have, therefore, taken the method of numbering them, as I took.
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