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Before you fet out to angle, fee that your 

 Baits be good, fweet, fine, agreeable to the 

 River and Seafon, and proper for the Fi(h you 

 defign to angle for: Likewife, that your 

 Tackle be fuitable and neat ; for, if ocherwife, 

 you had better continue at home, becaufe you 

 will not only tire and weary yourfelf, but Jofe 

 your Labour, which to a young Angler will 

 be no fmall Difcouragement. 



When you have hooked a great Fifh, let 

 him play and tire himfelf within the Water •, 

 and have fpecial Care to keep the Rod bent, 

 left he run to the End of the Line, and break 

 either Hook or Hold. Hale him not too near 

 the Top of the Water, left by flouncing he 

 break your Line. 



Where any I'Feeds, Roots of Trees^ Stones^ 

 Wood, or other Rubbifh are, it is often good, 

 but troublefome Angling; For to fuch Places 

 Fifh refort for Warmth and Security* The 

 fame may be faid of J^birl-pooh, which are 

 like Pits in Rivers, and feldom unfurnifhed 

 of good Fifh. Likewife at Weirs, Weir-poolsy 

 Mll-ftr earns. Piles, Tofts^ and Pillars of Bridg- 

 es, Flood'gatvs, Cataraiis, and Falls of Wa-' 

 ters \ the Conflux of Rivers, the Eddies be- 

 twixt two Screams, the Returns of a Stream, 

 and the Sides of a Stream, are good Places gene- 

 rally to angle in. 



In the Su?nmer all Fifh ufually lie in tlie 

 more fhallow Part of the River, fome in a 

 ftrong andfwift, others in a gentle Stream, 

 except Carp, Tenchy and EeL But in Winter 



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