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current, by angling in the returns of a stream, or 

 the eddies betwixt two streams ; which also are the 

 most likely places wherein to kill a fish in a stream, 

 either at the top or bottom. 



Of Grubs for a Grayling, the Ash-grub, which is 

 plump, milk-white, bent round from head to tail, 

 and exceeding tender, with a red head ; or the 

 Dock-worm, or grub, of a pale yellow, longer, 

 lanker, and tougher, than the other, with rows of 

 feet all down his belly, and a red head also ; are 

 the best, I say, for a Grayling : because, although 

 a Trout will take both these, the Ash-grub espe- 

 cially, yet he does not do it so freely as the other, 

 and I have usually taken ten Graylings for one 

 Trout with that bait : though if a Trout come, I 

 have observed that he is commonly a very good 

 one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran, in which 

 an Ash-grub commonly grows tougher, and will 

 better endure baiting ; though he is yet so tender, 

 that it will be necessary to warp-in a piece of a 

 stiff hair with your arming, leaving it standing out 

 about a straw-breadth at the head of your hook, 

 so as to keep the grub either from slipping totally 

 off when baited, or at least down to the point of 

 the hook, by which means your arming will be left 

 wholly naked and bare, which is neither so sightly, 

 nor so likely to be taken : though, to help that, 

 which will however very oft fall out, I always arm 

 the hook I design for this bait with the whitest 



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