THE COMPLETE ANGLES'. PART I. 



knows how I say, put jour hook, I mean the arming- 

 wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills; and, 

 then, with a fine needle and silk sow the upper part of 

 his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your 

 hook, or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the 

 armed-wire, and, in so doing, use him as though you 

 loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may pos- 

 sibly, that he may live the longer. 



And now, having given you this direction for the 

 baiting your ledger-hook with a live fish or frog, 

 my next must be to tell you, how your hook thus 

 baited must or may be used; and it is thus: Hav- 

 ing fastened your hook to a line which, if it be 

 not fourteen yards long, should not be less than 

 twelve you are to fasten that line to any bough 

 near to a hale where a Pike is, or is likely to lie, 

 or to have a haunt ; and then wind your line on 

 any forked stick all your line, except half a yard 

 of it or rather more and split that forked stick, 

 vith such a nick or notch at one end of it, as may 

 j >ep the line from any more of it ravelling from 

 al out the stick than so much of it as you intend, 

 AJ d choose your forked stick to be of that bigness as 

 may keep the fish, or frog, from pulling the forked 

 stick under the water till the Pike bites ; and, then, 

 the Pike having pulled the line forth-of the cleft or 

 nick of that stick in which it was gently fastened, he 

 will ave line enough to go to his hold and pouch 

 the b, i t. And if you would have this ledger-bait to 

 keep, ; t a fixt place, undisturbed by wind or other 

 accidents which may drive it to the shore side; (for 

 you are o note, that it is likeliest to catch a Pike 

 in the mi st of the water;) then hang a small plum- 

 met of k 1 a stone, or piece of tile, or a turf in a 

 string, anu cast it into the water, with the forked 

 stick, to hanaj upon the ground, to be a kind of anchor 

 to keep the 'brked stick from moving out of your in- 

 tended place till the Pike come : This J take to be a very 

 good way to use, so many ledger-baits as you intend to 

 make trial of, 



Or if you bait your hooks, thui, with live-fish or 



