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foot and a half, as long as your rod ; in a dark water with two, 

 or if you will with three, but in a clear water never with above one 

 hair next the hook, and two or three for four or five lengths above 

 it ; and a worm of what size you please : your plumbs fitted to 

 your cork, your cork to the condition of the river (that is, to the 

 swiftness or slowness of it), and both when the water is very clear, 

 as fine as you can ; and then you are never to bait with above 

 one of the lesser sort of brandlings ; or if they are very little ones 

 indeed, you may then bait with two, after the manner before 

 directed. 



When you angle for a Trout, you are to do it as deep, that is, 

 as near the bottom as you can, provided your bait do not drag, or 

 if it do, a Trout will sometimes take it in that posture. If for a 

 Grayling, you are then to fish further from the bottom ; he being 

 a fish that usually swims nearer to the middle of the water, and 

 lies always loose ; or, however, is more apt to rise than a Trout, 

 and more inclined to rise than to descend even to a ground-bait. 



With a Grub or Cadis, you are to angle with the same length 

 of line, or if it be all out as long as your rod 'tis not the worse, 

 with never above one hair, for two or three lengths next the hook, 

 and with the smallest cork or float, and the least weight of plumb 

 you can that will but sink, and that the swiftness of your stream 

 will allow ; which also you may help, and avoid the violence of 

 the current, by angling in the returns of a stream, or the eddies 

 betwixt two streams, which also are the most likely places wherein 

 to kill a fish in a stream, either at the top or bottom. 



Of Grubs for a Grayling, the ash-grub, which is plump, milk- 

 white, bent round from head to tail, and exceeding tender, with a 

 red head, or the dock-worm, or grub of a pale yellow, longer, 

 lanker, and tougher than the other, with rows of feet all down his 

 belly, and a red head also, are the best ; I say for a Grayling, 

 because although a Trout will take both these (the ash-grub 

 especially), yet he does not do it so freely as the other, and I 

 have usually taken ten Graylings for one Trout with that bait ; 

 though if a Trout come, I have observed that he is commonly 

 a very good one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran, in which an ash-grub 

 commonly grows tougher, and will better endure baiting ; though 

 he is yet so tender, that it will be necessary to warp in a piece 

 of a stiff hair with your arming, leaving it standing out about a 

 straw-breadth at the head of your hook, so as to keep the grub 

 either from slipping totally off when baited, or at least down to 



