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smell, that the fish fare the worse, and you the better 

 for it. 



And now I shall shew you. How to bait your hook 

 with a worm so, as shall prevent you from much 

 trouble, and the loss of many a hook, too when you 

 fish for a Trout with a running line * ; that is to 

 say, when you fish for him by hand at the ground. 

 I will direct you in this as plainly as I can, that you 

 may not mistake. 



Suppose it be a big lob-worm ; Put your hook into 

 him somewhat above the middle, and out again a little 

 below the middle : having so done, draw your worm 

 above the ARMING of your hook; but note, That, at 

 the entering of your hook, it must not be at the head- 

 end of the worm, but at the tail-end of him, that the 

 point of your hook may come out toward the head-end; 

 and, having drawn him above the arming of your hook, 

 then put the point of your hook, again, into the very 

 head of the worm, till it come near to the place where 

 the point of the hook first came out ; and then draw- 

 back that part of the worm that was above the shank or 

 arming of your hook, and so fish with it. And if 

 you mean to fish with two worms, then put the 

 second on, before you turn-back the hook's-head of 

 the first worm. You cannot lose above two or three 

 worms, before you attain to what I direct you ; and 

 having attained it, you will find it very useful, and 

 thank me for it, for you will run on the ground 

 without tangling. 



Now for the Minnow or Penk : He is not easily 

 found and caught till March, or in April, for then 



* The running-line^ so called because it runs along the ground, is 

 made of strong silk, which you may buy at the fishing-tackle shops : 

 but I prefer hair, as being less apt to tangle, and is thus fitted up. 

 About ten inches from the end, fasten a small cleft shot ; then make 

 a hole through a pistol, or musket, bullet according to the swiftness 

 of the stream you fish in ; and put the line through it, and draw 

 the bullet down to the shot : to the end of your line fasten an Indian 

 grass, or silk- worm-gut, with a large hook : Or you may, instead of 

 a bullet, fix four large shot, at the distance of eight inches from the 

 hgok. The running-line is used for Trout, Grayling, and Salmon-smelts; 

 and is proper only for streams and rapid waters. See Part II. Chap. XI. 



