82 The Complete Angler 



poured on the ground where you shall see worms 

 are used to rise in the night, will make them to 

 appear above ground presently. And you may 

 take notice, some say that camphire put into your 

 bag with your moss and worms gives them a strong 

 and so tempting a smell, that the fish fare the worse 

 and you the better for it. 



And now, I shall shew you how to bait your hook 

 with a worm so as shall prevent you from much 

 trouble, and the loss of many a hook, too, when you 

 fish for a Trout with a running line ; that is to say, 

 when you fish for him by hand at the ground. I 

 will direct you in this as plainly as I can, that you 

 may not mistake. 



Suppose it be a big lob-worm : put your hook into 

 him somewhat above the middle, and out again a 

 little below the middle : having so done, draw your 

 worm above the arming of your hook ; but note, 

 that, at the entering of your hook, it must not be at 

 the head-end of the worm, but at the tail-end of him, 

 that the point of your hook may come out toward 

 the head-end ; and, having drawn him above the 

 arming of your hook, then put the point of your 

 hook again into the very head of the worm, till it 

 come near to the place where the point of the hook 

 first came out, and then draw back that part of the 

 worm that was above the shank or arming of your 

 hook, and so fish with it. And if you mean to fish 

 with two worms, then put the second on before you 

 turn back the hook's-head of the first worm. You 

 cannot lose above two or three worms before you 

 attain to what I direct you ; and having attained it, 

 you will find it very useful, and thank me for it : for 

 you will run on the ground without tangling. 



Now for the Minnow or' Penk: he is not easily 

 found and caught till March, or in April, for then he 

 appears first in the river ; nature having taught him 



