352 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part ii. 



foot, or a foot and a half, as long as your rod, in a 

 dark water with two, or, if you will, with three ; 

 hut in a clear water never with above one hair next 

 the hook, and two or three for four or five lengths 

 ahove it ; and a worm of what size you please : your 

 plumhs fitted to your cork, your cork to the condi- 

 tion of the river (that is, to the swiftness or slow- 

 ness of it) and both, when the water is very clear, 

 as fine as you can ; and then you are never to bait 

 with above one of the lesser sort of brandlings ; or, 

 if they are very little ones indeed, you may then 

 bait with two, after the manner before directed. 



When you angle for a Trout, you are to do it 

 as deep, that is, as near the bottom as you can, 

 provided your bait do not drag ; or if it do, a Trout 

 will sometimes take it in that posture. If for a 

 Gravling, you are then to fish further from the 

 bottom, he being a fish that usually swims nearer 

 to the middle of the water, and lies always loose; 

 or, however, is more apt to rise than a Trout, and 

 more inclined to rise than to descend even to a 

 ground-bait. 



With a Grub or Cadis, you are to angle with the 

 same length of line, or if it be all out as long 

 as your rod, 'tis not the worse ; with never above 

 one hair for two or three lengths next the hook, 

 and with the smallest cork or float, and the least 

 weight of plumb you can that will but sink, and 

 that the swiftness of your stream will allow : which 

 also you may help, and avoid the violence of the 





