TIIE COMPLETE ANGLE&. PART ii. 



lobait your hook thus : You are, first, to run the point 

 of jour hook in at the very head of your first worm, 

 and so down through his body, till it be past tne knot, 

 -and, then, let it out : and strip [slip] the worm above 

 the arming-, that you may not bruise it with your 

 fingers ; till you have put on the dther, by running 

 the point of the hook in below the knot, and upwards 

 through his body towards his head, till it be but just 

 covered with the head; which being done, you are 

 then to slip the first worm down over the arming again, 

 till the knots of both worms meet together. 



The second way of angling by hand, and with a run- 

 ning-line, is with a line something longer than the 

 former, and with tackle made after this same manner : 

 At the utmost extremity of your line, where the hook is 

 always placed in all other ways of angling, you are to 

 Lave a large pistol (or carbine) bullet, into which the 

 end of your line is to be fastened with a peg, or pin 

 even and close with the bullet ; and, about half a foot 

 above that, a branch of line, of two or three handfuls 

 long, (or more for a swift stream,) with a hook at the 

 end thereof, baited with some of the forenamed worms ; 

 and, another half foot above that, another armed and 

 baited after the same manner, hmt with another sort of 

 \vorm, without any lead at all above*: by which means, 

 you will, always, certainly find the true bottom in all 

 depths ; which with the plumbs upon your line above, 

 you can never do, but that your bait must always drag 

 whilst you are sounding, which in this way of angling 1 

 rhust be continually by which means you are like to 

 have more trouble, and, peradventure, worse success. 

 And both these ways of angling-at-thc-bottom are most 

 proper for a dark and muddy water ; by reason, that in 

 such a condition of the stream, a man may stand as near 

 as he will, and neither his own shadow, nor the round- 

 ness of his tackle, will hinder his sport. 



The third way of angling by hand with a ground-bait, 

 and by much the best of all other, is, -with a line full 

 as long, or a yard and half longer than your rod ; with 

 no more than one hair next the hook, and for two or 

 three lengths above it; and no more than one small 



