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receives life, or what coloured fly it turns to ; but 

 doubtless they are the death of many Trouts : and 

 this is one killing way : 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow 

 cadis: pull off his head, and with it pull out his 

 black gut ; put the body, as little bruised as is pos- 

 sible, on a very little hook, armed on with a red hair, 

 which will shew like the cadis-head ; and a very little 

 thin lead, so put upon the shank of the hook that it 

 may sink presently. Throw this bait, thus ordered, 

 which will look very yellow, into any great still hole 

 where a Trout is, and he will presently venture his life 

 for it, it is not to be doubted, if you be not espied ; 

 and that the bait first touch the water before the line. 

 And this will do best in the deepest stillest water. 



Next, let me tell you, I have been much pleased 

 to walk quietly by a brook, with a little stick in my 

 hand, with which I might easily take these, and con- 

 sider the curiosity of their composure : and if you 

 should ever like to do so, then note, that your stick 

 must be a little hazel, or willow, cleft, or have a nick 

 at one end of it, by which means you may, with ease, 

 take many of them in that nick out of the water, 

 before you have any occasion to use them. These, 

 my honest scholar, are some observations, told to 

 you as they now come suddenly into m/ memory, 

 of which you may make some use : but for the prac- 

 tical part, it is that that makes an angler : it is dili- 

 gence, and observation, and practice, and an ambition 

 to be, the best in the art, that must do it. I will tell 

 you, scholar, I once heard one say, " I envy not him I 

 that eats better meat than I do ; nor him that is I 

 richer, or that wears better clothes than I do : I envy * 

 nobody but him, and him only, that catches more 

 fish than I do ". And such a man is like to prove 

 an angler ; and this noble emulation I wish to you, 

 and all young anglers. 



