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I will tell you, Scholar, several countries have several kinds 

 of cadises, that indeed ditTer as much as dogs do ; that is to say, 

 as much as a very cur and a greyhound do. These be usually 

 bred in the very little rills or ditches that run into bigger rivers ; 

 and, I think, a more proper bait for those very rivers than any 

 other. I know not how or of what this cadis receives life, or 

 what colored fly it turns to ; but doubtless they are the death of 

 many trouts, and this is one killing way : 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow cadis, 

 pull off his head, and with it pull out his black gut ; put the 

 body, as little bruised as is possible, on a very little hook, armed 

 on with a red hair, which will show like the cadis-head, and a 

 very little thin lead, so put upon the shank of the hook that it 

 may sink presently ; throw this bait thus ordered, which will 

 look very yellow, into any great still hole where a trout is, and 

 he will presently venture his life for it, 'tis not to be doubted, if 

 you be not espied, and that the bait first touch the water before 

 the line ; and this will do best in the deepest stillest water. 



Next let me tell you, I have been much pleased to walk quietly 

 by a brook with a little stick in my hand, with which I might 

 easily take these, and consider the curiosity of their composure : 

 and if you shall ever like to do so, then note, that your stick 

 must be a little hazel or willow, cleft, or have a nick at one end 

 of it ; by which means you may with ease take many of them 

 in that nick out of the water, before you have any occasion to 

 use them. These, my honest Scholar, are some observations 

 told to you as they now come suddenly into my memory, of 

 which you may make some use ; but for the practical part, it is 

 that that makes an angler : it is diligence, and observation, and 

 practice, and an ambition to be the best in the art, that must do 

 it. I will tell you. Scholar, I once heard one say, " I envy not 

 him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or 

 that wears better clothes than I do ; I envy nobody but him, and 

 him only, that catches more fish than I do." And such a man 

 is like to prove an angler ; and this noble emulation I wish to 

 you and all young anglers. 



