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When you would keep Bails for the Pike, 

 or Night-hooks^ fuch as fmall Roach^ Bace^ 

 Giidgeon^ Bleak^ Loach ^ Sahnon- Smelt ^ Minnow^ 

 Smelts fmall Trout^ fmall Ferch^ and fmall 

 Eels^ carry them in Wheat-hran^ which will 

 dry up the flimy Moifture that is on them, and 

 fo preferve them longer, and caule them to 

 ftick more firm on the Hook. Befides, there 

 is a green watery Humour that iflues out of 

 Fiili, which will infedt and rot them ; but the 

 Bran dries it up, and prevents that Mifchief. 



Oak-fly^ A[h-fly^ ox Woodcock-fly^ an Infedb 

 called by allthefe Names in different Places, is 

 a very good Fly from the Beginning of May 

 till the End of Auguft, It is of a brownifli 

 Hue, and found on the Body of an Oak or 

 AJh, It flands frequently with the Head down- 

 wards, towards the Root of the Tree. 

 It is very proper for a Trout ; and the 

 Way to ufe it, is to put one on the 

 Hook length- ways, and fometimes two, or to 

 follow theDiredion for baiting \kit May-fly for 

 dibbing, which fee. If you put it on length- 

 ways, fix a Cod-bait at the Point of the Hook, 

 and let them fink fix Inches or a Foot into the 

 Water -, and then raife them again gently, 

 having a fliort dibbing Line, and it will prove 

 a flital Bait for a Trout in clear Water. Some- 

 times inftcad of a Cod-bait ufe an Oak-ivorm^ 

 or green Gruby got ofi^of an Haw-thorn. 



There are feveral Sorts of May-flies^ which 

 indeed are the Foundation of all Ply-Afrgling ; 



but 



