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and lead in its mouth, for trout, perch, and 

 chub, in proper places for them, as you trowl for 

 pike, in a wind or by a deep stream. 



CHAP. XXL 



How to get the largest Fish where you cannot use 

 a Rod. 



JL have often seen great pools, with high banks, 

 rocks or woods on both sides, that I could do 

 nothing with a rod, and where there has been 

 plenty of great fish, and a strong stream. I have 

 looked at such places with no little grief and 

 vexation, till at last I contrived a way to make 

 myself easy ; which I am persuaded was never 

 used by any angler before : 



Having my creel, and all my night-line ma- 

 terials, I got a dry stick, about the thickness of 

 my arm, and a yard or more long : with this I 

 waded in, to the very top of the stream, looped 

 my line on the middle of the stick, and dropped 

 it into the stream; then I looped on a baited 

 snood a yard from the stick, another a yard and 

 a half from that, and so on, till the stick would 

 go no farther down: then I cut off my line, 

 made a loop, fastened it on a stone, and laid it 

 in the stream. I have been well paid and pleased 

 in the morning, to have ten or twelve large 

 trouts struggling for their lives and liberties : I 

 continued this method five or six times, till I got 



