1 84 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



bough or bundle of straw, and by the help of that 

 wind can get them to move across a pond or 

 mere, you are like to stand still on the shore and 

 see sport presently if there be any store of pikes ; 

 or these live baits may make sport being tied 

 about the body or wings of a goose or duck, and 

 she chased over a pond. And the like may be 

 done with turning three or four live baits thus 

 fastened to bladders, or boughs, or bottles of hay, 

 or flags, to swim down a river whilst you walk 

 quietly alone on the shore and are still in expecta- 

 tion of sport. The rest must be taught you by 

 practice, for time will not allow me to say more of 

 this kind of fishing with live baits. 



And for your dead bait for a pike, for that you 

 may be taught by one day's going a-fishing with me, 

 or any other body that fishes for him ; for the bait- 

 ing your hook with a dead gudgeon or a roach, 

 and moving it up and down the water, is too easy 

 a thing to take up any time to direct you to do it ; 

 and yet because I cut you short in that, I will 

 commute for it by telling you that that was told 

 me for a secret. It is this : 



Dissolve gum of ivy in oil of spike, and there- 

 with anoint your dead bait for a pike ; and then 

 cast it into a likely place, and when it has lain a 

 short time at the bottom, draw it towards the top 

 of the water and so up the stream : and it is more 

 than likely that you have a pike follow with more 

 than common eagerness. 



And some affirm that any bait anointed with the 



