Chap. 9. Of the BR E A M. noj 



have thus found the Place and its Depth, go 

 home and prepare your Ground-bait in the fol- 

 lowing Manner. Take a Peck, or a Peck and 

 half, according to the Magnitude of the 

 Stream and Depth of the Water where you 

 mean to angle, of fweet coarfe-ground Barley- 

 Malt, and juft boil it up in a Kettle : Then 

 drain it through a Bag into a Tub, and when 

 t he Bag and Malt is near cold, take it down 

 to the Water- fide about eight or nine o' Clock 

 in the Evening, but not before : Caft in two 

 Parts of your Ground-bait, fqueezed hard be- 

 tween both your Hands: It will fmk prefently 

 to the Bottom, and befure it may lie in the 

 very Place where you mean to angle. If the 

 Stream runs hard, or moves a little, caft your 

 Malt in Handfuls a little the higher up the 

 Stream. You may fqueeze the Malt fo faft 

 together in Handfuls, that the Water will 

 hardly part it with the Fall. 



Leave your Bag, with the reft of your Tack- 

 ling and Ground-bait, near the Sporting- Place 

 all Night, and in the Morning about three or 

 four o'clock, re-vifit the Water-fide; but not 

 too near ; for they have always a Centinel, and 

 the whole Shoal are very watchful. Then 

 gently take one of your Rods, and bait your 

 Hook, cafting it over your Ground-bait, and 

 gently draw it to you till the Lead refts about 

 the Middle of the Ground-bait. 



Take a fecond Rod, and caft it in about a 

 Yard above, and your third about a Yard be- 

 low the firft Rod : Fix the Rods in the 



Ground, 



