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 Lengths next the Hook. Your Lines are to be 

 almoftthe Length of your Rod, and very light 

 leaded, if you angle within the Water. Some- 

 times, when you ufe a Float, you may put 

 on two or three together -, and frequently a 

 Cod-hait^ to very good EfFed, is joined with 

 a fVor?n^ and fomctimes with an Artificial Fly^ 

 to cover the Point of the Hook. At other 

 times it is put on the Point of a Hook after an 

 Oak-fly^ and then they dib with it; or, which 

 is better, let them fink nine or ten Inches 

 within the Water, continually raifing, and 

 gently moving it up and down, both withia 

 the Water, and at the Top. Some fay Cod- 

 hait^ when ufed by itfelf, is always to be an- 

 gled with at the Bottom, and with the fineft 

 Tackle ; and that it is for all Times of the 

 Year the moft lafting of all Baits whatever, 

 both for Trout, Salmon Sfnelt, and Grayling. 

 Others affirm that the befl way to angle with 

 the Cod-bait, is to fifh with it on the Top of 

 the Water, for Trout, Grayling, or Salmon Smelt, 

 as you do with the Fly •, and that it mufl fland 

 on the Shank of the Hook, like the Artifi- 

 cial Fly ; becaufe if it comes into the Bent of 

 the Hook, the Fifh will not value it, nor if 

 you pull the blue Gut out of ir. To make 

 It keep that Place, you mufl, when you whip 

 your Hook, fallen a fliff Horfe-hair or 

 Hog's-briftle, under the Silk, with the End 

 ftandmg out about a Straw's Breadth at the 

 Head of the Hook, from under the Silk, and 

 pointing towards the Line, This, by the 

 ^ ^ way. 



