iso^le BRITISH ANGLER. P.IL 

 Wheq Rains raife the Rivers, and keep 

 them for fome Time above their ordinary 

 Height, Trouts leave t\\Q largeft Rivers, and 

 retire into fiich fmaJl Brooks as are almoft dry 

 m hot Summers •, and in fuch Brooks you 

 .fhouid then angle for them. They generally 

 quit the great Rivers at Michaelmas^ and go 

 into fmall Rivulets to fpawn, and are frequent- 

 ly there deftroyed by idle and diforderly Fel- 

 lows, with groping or otherwife, which does 

 more Injury to the Breed of Fiih, than all the 

 Summer's Angling. 



When you angle hx Trout ox Salmon^ let 

 your Bait drag as litde as may be, though tor 

 Trout it mufl however touch the Ground. Yec 

 fome advife to angle with a Float, that may 

 only keep it near the Bottom without touch- 

 i-ng -, which Method has been found fuccefsful, 

 but not fo often as the other, unlefs you bait 

 with Cod bail-, Clap-bail ^ or Cricket-bait. It 

 is a (landing Rule, that where you catch feve- 

 ral Minnows fucceflively, no Trout s will be 

 found at that Time : The Minnows however 

 that you take, may be made ufeful at a proper 

 Stand : For you may bait either with them or 

 fmall Loach. Take a large-fized Hook, 

 and put it in at his Mouth, and out at his 

 Gill ; then having drawn the Hook two or 

 three Inches through, put it again into his 

 Mouth, and the Point and Beard out at his 

 Tail, then draw your Line flrait, and clofe 

 the Mmio%ifs Mouth that no Water may get 

 in, which you may do with a Stitch. Or you 



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