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you double your time of eight into sixteen, twenty, or more days, 

 it is still the better ; for the worms will still be clearer, tougher, 

 and more lively, and continue so longer upon your hook. And 

 they may be kept longer by keeping them cool, and in fresh moss ; 

 and some advise to put camphire into it.* 



Note also, that many use to fish for a Salmon with a ring of 

 wire on the top of their rod, through which the line may run to 

 as great a length as is needful, when he is hooked. And to that 

 end, some use a wheel about the middle of their rod, or near their 

 hand, which is to be observed better by seeing one of them than 

 by a large demonstration of words. 



And now I shall tell you that which may be called a secret. I 

 have been a-fishing with old Oliver Henly, now with God, a 

 noted fisher both for Trout and Salmon ; and have observed, 

 that he would usually take three or four worms out of his bag, 

 and put them into a little box in his pocket, where he would 

 usually let them continue half an hour or more, before he would 

 bait his hook with them. I have asked him his reason, and he 

 has replied, " He did but pick the best out to be in readiness 

 against he baited his hook the next time : " but he has been 

 observed, both by others and myself, to catch more fish than I, or 

 any other body that has ever gone a-fishing with him, could do, 

 and especially Salmons. And I have been told lately, by one of 

 his most intimate and secret friends, that the box in which he put 

 those worms was anointed with a drop, or two or three, of the oil 

 of ivy-berries, made by expression or infusion ; and told, that by 

 the v worms remaining in that box an hour, or a like time, they had 

 incorporated a kind of smell that was irresistibly attractive, enough 

 to force any fish within the smell of them to bite. This I heard 

 not long since from a friend, but have not tried it ; yet I grant it 

 probable, and refer my reader to Sir Francis Bacon's " Natural 

 History," where he proves fishes may hear, and, doubtless, can 

 more probably smell : and I am certain Gesner says, the Otter 

 can smell in the water ; and I know not but that fish may do so 

 too. 'Tis left for a lover of angling, or any that desires to improve 

 that art, to try this conclusion. 



* Baits for Salmon are : lob-worms, for the ground ; smaller worms and bobs, cad-bait, 

 and, indeed, most of the baits taken by the trout, at the top of the water. Flies should 

 be made of the most gaudy colours, and very large. There is a fly called the horse-leech 

 fly, which he is very fond of: they are of various colours, have great heads, large 

 bodies, very long tails, and two (and some have three) pairs of wings, placed behind 

 escli other : in imitating this fly, behind each pair of wings, whip the body about with 

 gold or silver twist, or both, and do the same by the head. Fish with it at length, as 

 for Trout and Grayling. If you dib, do it with two or three butterflies of different 

 colours, or with some of the most glaring small flies you can find. 



