chap, si.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 351 



downward. And with this line and hook, thus 

 baited, you are evermore to angle in the streams ; 

 always in a clear, rather than a troubled, water, and 

 always up the river, still casting out your worm 

 before you with a light one-handed rod, like an 

 artificial-fly ; where it will be taken, sometimes at 

 the top, or within a very little of the superficies of 

 the water, and almost always before that light 

 plumb can sink it to the bottom ; both by reason of 

 the stream, and also that you must always keep 

 your worm in motion by drawing still back to- 

 wards you, as if you were angling with a fly. And 

 believe me, whoever will try it, shall find this the 

 best way of all other to angle with a worm, in a 

 bright water especially : but then his rod must be 

 very light and pliant, and very true and finely made ; 

 which, with a skilful hand, will do wonders, and in a 

 clear stream is undoubtedly the best way of angling 

 for a Trout or Grayling, with a worm, by many 

 degrees, that any man can make choice of, and of 

 most ease and delight to the angler. To which let 

 me add, that if the angler be of a constitution that 

 will suffer him to wade, and will slip into the tail 

 of a shallow stream, to the calf of the leg or the 

 knee, and so keep off the bank, he shall almost take 

 what fish he pleases. 



The second way of Angling at the Bottom is 

 with a Cork or Float. And that is also of two sorts : 

 with a Worm, or with a Grub or Cadis. 



With a Worm, you are to have your line within a 



