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with as good success, till about the middle of 

 June, when they are all gone too. 



For many years after, I made further discoveries 

 and improvements relating to this bait. They 

 are not to be met with in every river, nor in 

 every stream in rivers where they are bred : nor 

 where they are in the greatest plenty, any longer 

 than five or six weeks at the most ; for about 

 the middle of May they take wing, and for 

 14 or 18 days, while their wings are growing, 

 and when they are creeping about the stones at 

 the sides of the streams, they may be got, and 

 fished with as the creeper, if you nip or clip off 

 the greatest part of their long wings. When 

 these creepers grow plentiful in the streams, the 

 trouts begin to grow good ; and I have observed 

 them the soonest red, and in their perfection, 

 where they have the greatest plenty of this food 

 in particular. 



It is best to get these creepers when you are 

 going to use them, if you have a boy with you 

 to catch them for you, tho' they may be kept 

 two or three days. You are to seek for them, as 

 I said before, in any shallow stony stream, near 

 the water's edge ; and you must be very nimble 

 in catching them, for they will creep very fast 

 among the sand and gravel, and get under other 

 stones. 



You must have a horn ready to put them into 

 as you get them. I make mine of a common 

 powder horn, as wide at the small end as to take 

 a quart bottle cork : I burn or bore 10 or 12 

 holes thro' it, to let them have air, but not so 

 wide that they can creep thro' them j near the 

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