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will come near to bite. On this Account, the 

 Indian Grafs makes themoft convenient Hook- 

 Links. When the Worm is well-baited, it 

 will crawl up and down, as far as the Lead will 

 give Leave, which much entices the Fifh to 

 bite without Sufpicion. 



With your Baits thus prepared, and your 

 Tackling fitted, repair to the River, where 

 you have feen them fwim in Skulls or Shoals 

 in the Summer-Time, in a hot After- 

 noon, about three or four o^Clock : Watch 

 their going forth of their deep Holes, and re- 

 turning again about four o'CiocIc, when mod 

 of them feek Provifion at the Bottom, while 

 one or two will lie on the Top of the Water, 

 roiling and tumbling, to keep Centinel. Ob- 

 ferve where he plays moft, and flays longeft, 

 which commonly is in the broadefl and deep- 

 eft Place of the River; and there, or near 

 thereabouts, at a clear Bottom, and a conve- 

 nient Landing- Place, take one of your Angles 

 fitted as aforefaid, and found the Bottom, 

 which fliould be about eight or ten Feet deep^ 

 and two Yards from the Bank. Then refled 

 with you rfelf, whether that Water will rife or 

 fall by the next Morning, by reafon of any 

 Water-mills near, and according to your Dif- 

 cretion take the Depth of the Place, where 

 you mean after to cafl your Ground- bait, and 

 to fifh with the utmoft Exadlnefs ; fo that the 

 Lead lying on or near the Ground-bait, the 

 Top of the Float may only appear upright 

 half an Inch above the Water. When. you 



have 



