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tender, with a red head, or the dock-worm, or grub of 

 a pale yellow, longer, lanker, and tougher than the other, 

 with rows of feet all down his belly, and a red head also, 

 are the best ; I say, for a grayling, because although a 

 trout will take both these, the ash-grub especially, yet 

 he does not do it so freely as the other, and I have usually 

 taken ten graylings for one trout with that bait ; though 

 if a trout come, I have observed that he is commonly a very 

 good one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran, in which an ash- 

 grub commonly grows tougher, and will better endure 

 baiting ; though he is yet so tender, that it will be neces- 

 sary to warp in a piece of a stiff hair with your arming, 

 leaving it standing out about a straw-breadth at the head 

 of your hook, so as to keep the grub either from slipping 

 totally off when baited, or at least down to the point of the 

 hook ; by which means your arming will be left wholly 

 naked and bare, which is neither so sightly, nor so like 

 to be taken : though to help that, which will however very 

 oft fall out, I always arm the hook I design for this bait 

 with the whitest horse-hair I can choose, which itself 

 will resemble, and shine like that bait, and consequently 

 will do more good, or less harm, than an arming of any 

 other colour. These grubs are to be baited thus : the 

 hook is to be put under the head or chaps of the bait, and 

 guided down the middle of the belly without suffering 

 it to peep out by the way, for then the ash-grub especially 

 will issue out water and milk, till nothing but the skin 

 shall remain, and the bend of the hook will appear black 

 through it, till the point of your hook come so low, that 

 the head of your bait may rest, and stick upon the hair 

 that stands out to hold it ; by which means it can neither 

 slip of itself, neither will the force of the stream, nor quick 

 pulling out, upon any mistake, strip it off. 



Now the cadis, or cod-bait, which is a sure killing bait, 

 and for the most part, by much surer than either of the 



