92 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part i. 



Pisc. My honest Scholar, I will take this very 

 convenient opportunity to do it. 



The Trout is usually caught with a worm, or a 

 minnow, which some call a Penk, or with a fly, 

 viz. either a natural or an artificial fly : concerning 

 which three I will give you some observations and 

 directions. 



And, first, for worms : of these there be very 

 many sorts ; some breed only in the earth, as the 

 Earth-worm ; others of or amongst plants, as the 

 Dug- worm ; and others breed either out of excre- 

 ments, or in the bodies of living creatures, as in the 

 horns of sheep or deer ; or some of dead flesh, 

 as the maggot or gentle, and others. 



Now these be most of them particularly good for 

 particular fishes : but for the Trout, the Dew-worm, 

 which some also call the Lob-worm, and the Brand- 

 ling, are the chief ; and especially the first for a 

 great Trout, and the latter for a less. There be also 

 of Lob-worms some called Squirrel-tails, a worm 

 that has a red head, a streak down the back, and a 

 broad tail, which are noted to be the best, because 

 they are the toughest and most lively, and live 

 longest in the water : for you are to know, that a 

 dead worm is but a dead bait, and like to catch no- 

 thing, compared to a lively, quick, stirring, worm. 

 And for a Brandling, he is usually found in an old 

 dunghill, or some very rotten place near to it : but 

 most usually in cow-dung, or hog's dung, rather 

 than horse- dung, which is somewhat too hot and 



