62 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part i. 



Flesh-fly, or Wall-fly, or the Dor or Beetle, which 

 you may find under cow- dung, or a Bob, which you 

 will find in the same place, and in time will be a 

 beetle ; it is a short white worm, like to and bigger 

 than a gentle, or a Cod-worm, or a Case-worm, any 

 of these will do very well to fish in such a manner. 



And after this manner you may catch a Trout in 

 a hot evening : when, as you walk by a brook, and 

 shall see or hear him leap at flies, then if you get 

 a grashopper, put it on your hook, with your line 

 about two yards long, standing behind a bush or 

 tree where his hole is, and make your bait stir up 

 and down on the top of the water. You may, if 

 you stand close, be sure of a bite, but not sure to 

 catch him, for he is not a leather-mouthed fish : 

 and after this manner you may fish for him with 

 almost any kind of live fly, but especially with a 

 grashopper. 



Ven. But before you go farther, I pray, good 

 Master, what mean you by a leather-mouthed fish ? 



Pise. By a leather-mouthed fish, I mean such as 

 have their teeth in their throat, as the Chub or Che- 

 ven ; and so the Barbel, the Gudgeon, and Carp, 

 and divers others have ; and the hook being stuck 

 into the leather, or skin, of the mouth of such fish, 

 does very seldom or never lose its hold : but on the 

 contrary, a Pike, a Perch, or Trout, and so some 

 other fish, — which have not their teeth in their 

 throats, but in their mouths, which vou shall ob- 



