THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



stand to your rods at one place, and it will spoil 

 your evening sport that day, which is this. 



About four of the clock in the afternoon repair 

 to your baited place ; and as soon as you come to 

 the water-side cast in one half of the rest of your 

 ground-bait, and stand off: then, whilst the fish 

 are gathering together, for there they will most 

 certainly come for their supper, you may take a 

 pipe of tobacco, and then in with your three rods 

 as in the morning. You will find excellent sport 

 that evening till eight of the clock ; then cast in 

 the residue of your ground-bait, and next morning, 

 by four of the clock, visit them again for four 

 hours, which is the best sport of all ; and after 

 that, let them rest till you and your friends have a 

 mind to more sport. 



From St. James's-tide until Bartholomew-tide is 

 the best ; when they have had all the summer's 

 food, they are the fattest. 



Observe, lastly, that after three or four days' 

 fishing together, your game will be very shy and 

 wary, and you shall hardly get above a bite or two 

 at a baiting ; then your only way is to desist 

 from your sport about two or three days ; and in 

 the mean time, on the place you late baited and 

 again intend to bait, you shall take a turf of green 

 but short grass, as big or bigger than a round 

 trencher; to the top of this turf, on the green 

 side, you shall, with a needle and green thread, 

 fasten one by one as many little red worms as will 

 near cover all the turf; then take a round board 



