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and more inclined to rise than to descend even to a ground- 

 bait. 



With a grub or 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 smallest 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, for a gray- 

 ling ; because, 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 necessary to warp in a piece 

 of a stiff hair with your 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 like to 

 be taken, though to help that, which will however very oft fall 

 out, I always arm the hook 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 harm 

 than an arming of any other color. These grubs are to be baited 

 thus : the hook is to be put 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, and 



