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to ; but, doubtless, they are the death of many 

 trouts : and this is one killing way. 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large 

 yellow cadis ; pull off his head, and with it pull 

 out his black gut ; put the body, as little bruised 

 as is possible, on a very little hook, armed on with 

 a red hair, which will show like the cadis-head ; 

 and a very little thin lead, so put upon the shank 

 of the hook that it may sink presently. Throw 

 this bait, thus ordered, which will look very yellow, 

 into any great still hole where a trout is, and he 

 will presently venture his life for it, 't is not to be 

 doubted, if you be not espied ; and that the bait 

 first touch the water, before the line ; and this will 

 do best in the deepest, stillest water. 



Next let me tell you I have been much pleased 

 to walk quietly by a brook with a little stick in my 

 hand, with which I might easily take these and 

 consider the curiosity of their composure ; and if 

 you shall ever like to do so, then note that your 

 stick must be a little hazel or willow, cleft, or have 

 a nick at one end of it, by which means you may 

 with ease take any of them in that nick out of the 

 water, before you have any occasion to use them. 

 These, my honest scholar, are some observations 

 told to you as they now come into my memory, 

 of which you may make some use ; but for the 

 practical part, it is that that makes an angler : it is 

 diligence and observation and practice, and an 

 ambition to be the best in the art, that must do it. 

 I will tell you, scholar, I once heard one say, " I 



