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ter Rain, or fwclled more than ufually. Nay, 

 it will even turn to Account in cafting your 

 Lines, efpecially the artificial Fly-Hne, if you 

 make the uppermofl Link or Gildard to con- 

 fiil of twelve or nine Hairs, with one or two 

 Hairs lefs in the next Link, and fo abate pro- 

 portionably in every Link, till you come to 

 the Hook. By this means any young Angler 

 will caft a Fly well, and quickly become an 

 accurate Artift ; and if he chances to fallen his 

 Hook, and cannot come to loofen it, he will 

 not lofe above one Link, or two at mod, 

 though he pull to break it ; becaufe the Line 

 is fo ftrong at the upper End. You may an- 

 gle with ftronger Lines at the Caft-fly than at 

 Ground, in a clear Water for the Trout. For 

 in a clear Water at Ground for Trouts, Gray- 

 lings, and Salmon Smelts, never ufe a Line 

 made otherwife than with a fingle Hair at 

 Hook, and fo on as above direded; only never 

 have above four Hairs in any one Link of the 

 Line. 



Your Lines being thus made, the Rod and 

 Line will be in a manner taper, from the ve- 

 ry Hand to the Hook, and the Line will fall 

 much better and ilraiser, and caft your Fly or 

 Bait to any certain Place your Hand or Eye 

 fhall dired, with lefs Weight and Violence 

 then otherwife, and fo neither circle the Wa- 

 ter, nor fright away the Filh. 



ThQ Runnmg Worm Line ^"m a clear Wa- 

 ter, for Trouts, Graylings, and Salmon Smelts, 

 fliould be ufually two Yards ihorter than the 



Rod, 



