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of two Foot, or not exceeding three, then bait 

 your Hook with three large Gentles : Ufe a 

 Cork-Float, which ought not to be a Foot and 

 a half from the Hook, and have a quick Eye 

 toftrikeat the very firfl Bite ; for if there be 

 any large Dace in the Mill-pooJ, they will re- 

 fort to the Eddy between the two Streams, 



The fame Gentleman obferves farther, that 

 if every Angler would confider, that Gentles 

 are not only the mod univerfal, but alfo the 

 moft alluring Bait, they would always carry 

 fome of them with them. He affirms, he has. 

 taken ^rout with Gentles^ when every Kind of 

 Worm has been refufed, and. artificial Flies 

 rejedled : And even to all forts of Frefh-water 

 or River Fifh, File and Salmon excepted, they 

 have proved an acceptable Bait \ nor does he 

 doubt but they would be fo to them, could it 

 be fo contrived, as to fix them upon a Hook 

 that could hold either Salmon or Pike, 



The Silver Dace, no defpicahle Fi/Io, 

 May pleafe the Angler both in Sport and Dijh, 

 In Summer on the Scours the Wanton lies, 

 And^ ifunfeen^ he all Day long will rife : 

 But ne'er fo gamefojne, ne'er fo brisk before. 

 Once feen he flies you, and will rife no more. 

 Behind fome Covert then thyfelf conceal. 

 And with the Flefli-fly thou xilt feldom faiL 

 Floats ufelefs are^ unlefs the W orm you try. 

 And with the rifing FlafJo fuccef fully 

 'Defend the Streafu -, then any Thing he takes^ 

 And, like the Trout, hut fnall Difnncfion makes. 



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