fSHAP. Till. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



frogs ; and in a windy day, fasten them, thus, to 

 a bough or bundle of straw, and by the help of that 

 wind can get them to move cross a pond or mere; 

 you are like to stand still on the shore and see sport, 

 presently, if there be any store of Pikes. Or, these 

 live-baits may make sport, being tied about the body 

 or wings of a goose or duck, and she chased over a 

 pond*. And the like may be done, with turning 

 three or four live-baits thus fastened to bladders, or 

 boughs, or bottles of hay or flags to swim down a 

 river, whilst you walk quietly alone on the shore, 

 and are still, in expectation of sport. The rest must 

 be taught you by practice; for time will not allow 

 me to say more of this kind of fishing with live-baits. 



And for your DEAD-BAIT for a Pike. For that : 

 you may be taught, by one day's going a fishing with 

 me, or any other body that fishes for him; for the 

 baiting your hook with a dead gudgeon or a roach, 

 and moving it up and down the water, is too easy a 

 thing to take up any time to direct you to do it. 

 And yet, because I cut you short in that, I will commute , 

 for it by telling you that that was told me for a secret : ( -" 

 it is this : { . 



Dissolve gum of ivy, in oil of spike: and there-, 

 with anoint your dead-bait for a Pike ; and then cagt 

 it into a likely place, and when it has lain a short 

 time at the bottom, draw it towards the top of the 

 water, and so up the stream, and it is more than liljr Ty 

 that you have a Pike follow with more than corn*, .on 

 eagerness. f '' 



* A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, 

 A winder and barrel, will help thy desire 



In killing a Pike : but the forked stick, b'' 



With a slit and a bladder, and that other fine trick 



Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,,*' 



Will kill two for one, if you have any luck ; 



The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, ' 



To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile. 



When a Pike suns himself, and a frogging doth gc^ 



The two-inched hook is better, I know, 



Than the ord'nary snaring. But still I must cry, 



* When the Pike ii at home, mind the cookery." 



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