88 " The Cast of the Flie? 



" I utterly dislike your southern corks. 

 First for they affright the fish, in the bite 

 and sight, and because they follow not so 

 kindly the nimble rod and hand. Secondly 

 they breed weight to the line, which puts 

 it in danger, and hinders the nimble jerk 

 of the rod, and loades the arm. A good 

 eye and hand may easily discern the bite." 



He tells us that he makes his own 

 hooks out of the best Spanish and Millan 

 needles, and gives excellent illustrated 

 instructions in the manufacture. With 

 reference to a line in the Secrets, in which 

 Dennys says of the hook, 



" His point not over sharp, not yet too dull," 



Lawson says truly, " He meanes the hooke 

 may be too weake at the point, it cannot 

 be too sharpe if the metal be good steele." 

 Lawson, as far as I know, was the first 

 angling writer to mention that fish of the 

 carp family have throat teeth. 



"THE CAST OF THE FLIE." 



Of the trout he remarks : 

 "The trout makes the angler most 

 gentlemanly, and readiest sport of all 

 other fishes : if you angle with a made 

 fly, and a line twice your rod's length or 

 more (in a plaine water without wood) 



