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covered with the head ; which being done, you are then to sh"p 

 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 running 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 an- 

 gling, you are to have 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 

 fore-named worms, and, another half a foot above that, another, 

 armed and baited after the same manner (but with another sort 

 of worm, 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 must be continually, by which means you 

 are like to have more trouble, and peradventure worse success. 

 And both these ways of angling at the 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 roundness 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 a half longer than your rod, with no mere than one hair 

 next the hook, and for two or three lengths above it, and no more 

 than one small pellet of shot for your plumb ; your hook little, 

 your worms of the smallest brandlings very well scoured, and 

 only one upon your hook at a time ; Mhich ii> thus to be baited. 

 The point of your hook is to be put in at the very tag of his tail, 

 and run up his body quite over all the arming, and still stripped 

 on an inch at least upon the hair, the head and remaining part 

 hancring downward : and with this line and hook thus baited you 

 are evermore to angle in the streams, always in a clear rather 

 than a troubled water, and always up the river, still casting out 



