THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 2OI 



hook ; but be sure the lead be heavy enough to 

 sink the float or quill a little under the water, and 

 not the quill to bear up the lead, for the lead must 

 lie on the ground. Note that your link next the 

 hook may be smaller than the rest of your line, if 

 you dare adventure, for fear of taking the pike or 

 perch, who will assuredly visit your hooks till they 

 be taken out, as I will show you afterwards, before 

 either carp or bream will come near to bite. 

 Note, also, that when the worm is well baited, it 

 will crawl up and down as far as the lead will give 

 leave, which much enticeth the fish to bite with- 

 out suspicion. 



3. Having thus prepared your baits and fitted 

 your tackling, repair to the river, where you have 

 seen them to swim in skulls or shoals in the sum- 

 mer-time in a hot afternoon, about three or four 

 of the clock ; and watch their going forth of their 

 deep holes and returning, which you may well 

 discern, for they return about four of the clock, 

 most of them seeking food at the bottom, yet one 

 or two will lie on the top of the water, rolling and 

 tumbling themselves, whilst the rest are under 

 him at the bottom ; and so you shall perceive him 

 to keep sentinel. Then mark where he plays most 

 and stays longest, which commonly is in the broad- 

 est and deepest place of the river, and there or 

 near thereabouts, at a clear bottom and a conven- 

 ient landing-place, take one of your angles ready 

 fitted as aforesaid, and sound the bottom, which 

 should be about eight or ten feet deep ; two yards 



