328 THE COMPLETE ANGLER 



cork or float ; and that is also of two sorts ; with a 

 worm, or with a grub or cadis. 



With a worm, you are to have your line within a foot, 

 or a foot and a half as long as your rod ; in a dark water, 

 with two, or if you will with three, but in a clear water, 

 never with above one hair next the hook, and two or three 

 for four or five lengths above it, and a worm of what 

 size you please, your plumbs fitted to your cork, your 

 cork to the condition of the river, that is, to the swiftness, 

 or slowness of it ; and both, when the water is very 

 clear, as fine as you can ; and then you are never to 

 bait with above one of the lesser sort of brandlings ; 

 or, if they are very little ones indeed, you may then bait 

 with two, after the manner before directed. 



When you angle for a trout, you are to do it as deep, 

 that is, as near the bottom as you can, provided your 

 bait do not drag ; or if it do, a trout will sometimes take 

 it in that posture : if for a grayling, you are then to 

 fish further from the bottom, he being a fish that usually 

 swims nearer to the middle of the water, and lies always 

 loose ; or however, is more apt to rise than a trout, and 

 more inclined to rise than to descend even to a ground- 

 bait. 



With a grub or cadis, you are to angle with the same 

 length of line, or if it be all out as long as your rod it is 

 not the worse, with never above one hair, for two or three 

 lengths next the hook, and with the smallest cork or float, 

 and the least weight of plumb you can that will but sink, 

 and that the swiftness of your stream will allow ; which 

 also you may help, and avoid the violence of the current, 

 by angling in the returns of a stream, or the eddies betwixt 

 two streams, which also are the most likely places wherein 

 to kill a fish in a stream, either at the top or 

 bottom. 



Of grubs for a grayling, the ash-grub, which is plump, 

 milk-white, bent round from head to tail, and exceeding 



