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sport presently if there be any store of Pikes : or 

 these live-baits may make sport, being tied about 

 the body or wings of a goose or duck, and she 

 chased over a pond. And the like may be done 

 with turning three or four live-baits, thus fastened 

 to bladders, or boughs, or bottles of hay or flags, to 

 swim down a river, whilst you walk cmietly alone 

 on the shore, and are still in expectation of sport. 

 The rest must be taught you by practice, for time 

 will not allow me to say more of this kind of fish- 

 ing with live-baits. 



And for your dead-bait for a Pike, for that you 

 may be taught by one day's going a-fishing with 

 me, or any other body that fishes for him ; for the 

 baiting your hook with a dead Gudgeon or a Roach, 

 and moving it up and down the water, is too easy 

 a thing to take up any time to direct you to do it : 

 and yet, because I cut you short in that, I will com- 

 mute for it by telling you that that was told me 

 for a secret. It is this : 



Dissolve Gum of Ivy in Oil of Spike, and there- 

 with anoint your dead-bait for a Pike ; and then cast 

 it into a likely place, and when it has lain a short 

 time at the bottom, draw it towards the top of the 

 water and so up the stream : and it is more than 

 likely that you have a Pike follow with more than 

 common eagerness. 



And some affirm, that any bait anointed with the 

 marrow of the thigh-bone of an Hern, is a great 

 temptation to any fish. 



These have not been tried by me, but told me by 



