THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 4M 



CHAPTER XL 



Of ANGLiNG-AT-THE-BoT-roM/or Trout or Grayling 

 - by handy with a running line o?#A a cork of 

 float. Various baits. 



VIATOR. 



SO, Sir, now we are here, and set, let me have ray 

 instructions for Angling, for Trout and Grayling, at- 

 tlie-bottom ; which though not so easy, so cleanly, nor, 

 as 'tis said, so genteel a way of fishing as with a fly, i 

 yet, if I mistake not, a good holding way, and takes 

 fish when nothing: else will. 



Pisc.-Ju. You are in the right, it does so: and 

 a worm is so sure a bait, at all times, that, excepting in 

 a flood, I would I had laid fine] a thousand pounds 

 that I did not kill tish, more or less with it, winter or 

 summer, every day throughout the year ; those days 

 always excepted, that upon a more serious account 

 always ought so to be. But not longer to delay you, 

 I will begin : and tell you, that Angling-at-the-bottora 

 is also, commonly , of two sorts ; and yet there is a third 

 way of angling with a ground-bait, and to very great 

 effect too, as shall be said hereafter, namely, by hand, 

 or with a cork or float. 



That we call Angling by hand, is of three sorts. 

 The first, with a line about half the length of the rod, 

 a good weighty plumb, and three hairs next the hook, 

 which we call a running-line; and with one large 

 brandling, or a dew worm of a moderate size or two 

 small ones of the first, or any other sort proper for* a 

 Trout, of which my father Walton has already given you. 

 the names, and saved me a labour or indeed, almost 

 any worm whatever; for if a Trout be in the humour 

 to bite, it must be such a worm as I never yet saw, that 

 he will refuse. And if you fish with two, you are then 



