Secrets of Angling. 47 



All these are good, and many others more, 

 To make fit baites to take these kinde of Fish, 

 So that some faire deepe place you feede before, 

 A day or two, with paile, with bole, or dish ; 

 And of these meats do vse to throw in store, 

 Then shall you haue them byte as you would wish 

 And ready sport to take your pleasure still, 

 Of any sort that best you like to kill. 



Thus seruing them as often as you may, 

 But once a weeke at least it must be done, 

 If that to bite they make too long delay, 

 As by your sport may be perceiucd soone : 

 Then some great Fish doth feare the rest away, 

 Whose fellowship and companie they shunnc : 



Who neither in the bait doth take delight, 

 Nor yet will suffer them that would to byte. 



For this you must a remedie prouide, 

 Some Roche or Bleike, as I have show'd before, 

 Beneath whose vpper fin you close shall hide 

 Of all your Hooke the better halfe and more. 

 And though the point appeare or may be spide, 

 It makes no matter any whit therefore : 



But let him fall into the watry brimme, 

 And downe vnto the bottome softly swimme. 



And when you see your Corke begin to moue, 

 And round about to soare and fetch a ring, 

 Sometime to sinke, and sometime swimme aboue, 

 As doth the Ducke within the watry spring, 

 Yet make no haste your present hap to proue, 

 Till with your float at last away hce fling, 



Then may you safely strike and hold him short. 



And at your will prolong or end your sport. 



