454 fiiE COMPLETE ANGLER* PART ir. 



is, to the swiftness or slowness of it; and both, when the 

 tpater is very clear, as fine as you can, and then you 

 are never to bait with above one of the lesser sort of 

 brandlings; or, if they are very little ones indeed $ you 

 may then bait with two, after the manner before di- 

 rected. * 



When you angle for a Trout ; you are to do it as 

 deep, that is, as near the bottom as you can, provided 

 your bait do not drag or, if it do, a Trout will some- 

 times take it in that posture. If for a Grayling, you 

 are then to fish further from the bottom ; he being a fish 

 that usually swims nearer to the middle of the water, 

 and lies always loose ; or however is more apt to rise 

 than a Trout, and more inclined to rise, than to descend 

 even to a ground-bait. 



With a Grub, 0r Cadis : You are to angle with the 

 same length of line, or, if it be all out as long as your 

 rod, 'tis not the worse; with never above one hair, for 

 two or three lengths next the hook ; and with the small- 

 est cork, or float; and the least weight of plumb you 

 can that will but sink, and that the swiftness of your 

 stream will allow, which also you may help, and 

 avoid the violence of the current, by angling in the 

 returns of a stream, or the eddies betwixt two streams ; 

 which also are the most likely places, wherein to kill a 

 fish in a stream, either at the top or bottom. 



Of grubs: For a Grayling, the ash-grub, which is 

 plump, milk-white, bent round from head to tail, and 

 exceeding tender, with a red head, or the dock- worm 

 (or grub) of a pale yellow ; longer, lanker, and tougher 

 than the other ; with rows of feet all down his belly ; and 

 a red head also, are the best; I say fora Grayling, be- 

 cause, although a Trout will take both these, the ash- 

 grub especially, yet he does not do it so freely as the 

 other, -and I have usually taken ten Graylings for one 

 Trout with that bait : though if a Trout come, I have 

 observed, that he is commonly a very good one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran ; in which an ash- 

 grub commonly grows tougher, and will better endure 

 baiting ; though he is, yet, so tender, that it will be ne- 

 cessary to warp-in a piece of a stiff hair with your 



