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arming, leaving it standing out about a straw-breadth 

 at the head of your hook, so as to keep the grub either 

 from slipping totally off when baited, or at least down to 

 the point of the hook, by which means your arming 

 will be left wholly naked and bare, which is neither so 

 sightly, nor so likely to be taken : though to help that, 

 which will however very oft fall out, I always arm the 

 Look I design for this bait with the whitest horse-hair I 

 can choose; which, itself, will resemble, and shine like 

 that bait, and consequently will do more good, or less 

 liarm, than an arming of any other colour. These grubs 

 are to be baited thus : the hook is to be put in under the 

 head or chaps of the bait, and guided down the middle 

 of the belly, (without suffering it to peep out by the 

 way ; for then the ash-grub, especially, will issue out 

 water and milk, till nothing but the skin shall remain j 

 and the bend of the hook will appear black through it,) 

 till the point of your hook come so low that the head of 

 your bait may rest, and stick upon the hair that stands 

 out to hold it; by which means it can neither slip of 

 itself, neither will the force of the stream nor quick 

 pulling out, upon any mistake strip it off. 



Now the cadis, or cod-bait, which is a sure killing 

 bait, and for the most part, by much surer than either of 

 the other ; may be put upon the hook, two or three 

 together ; and is sometimes, to very great effect, joined 

 to a worm and sometimes, to an artificial flyto 

 cover the point of your hook : but is always to be angled 

 with, at the bottom, when by itself especially, with the 

 finest tackle; and is, for all times of the year, the 

 most holding bait of all other whatever, both for 

 Trout and Grayling. 



There are several other baits, besides these few I have 

 named you, which also do very great execution at the 

 bottom ; and some that are peculiar to certain countries 

 and rivers, of which every angler may in his own place 

 make his own observation ; and some others that I do 

 not think fit to put you in mind of, because I would not 

 corrupt you, and would have you, as in all things else 1 

 observe you to be a very honest gentleman^ a fair angler. 



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