Fishing-Tackle Makers. 189 



Weire, I mean any deep place where 

 Roaches lie quietly, and then pull your flie 

 up very leisurely, and usually a Roach will 

 follow your bait to the very top of the 

 water and gaze on it there, and run at it 

 and take it lest the flie should flie away 

 from him. I have seen this done at 

 Windsor, and Henly Bridg, and great store 

 of Roach taken ; and sometimes a Dace 

 or Chub." 



It is most interesting to see a great 

 roach follow the fly up to the surface and 

 " gaze on it," as Walton says. 



FISHING-TACKLE MAKERS RECOMMENDED 

 BY WALTON. 



In his first edition, page 228, Piscator 

 says to Viator, 



" You must have all these tackling, and 

 twice so many more, with which, if you 

 mean to be a fisher, you must store your- 

 selfe : and to that purpose I will go with 

 you either to Charles Brandons (neer to 

 the Swan in Golding-Latte) ; or to Mr... 

 Fletchers in the Court which did once 

 belong to Dr. Nowel the Dean of St. 

 Pauls, that I told you was a good man r 

 and a good Fisher; it is hard by the 

 west end of Saint Pauls Church ; they be 

 both honest men, and will fit an Angler 

 with what tackling hee wants." 



