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of Night-Angling, 



GReat Filh (efpecially Trouts) are like Bucks , 

 wary and circumfped in their felf-prefervation, 

 and know the feafons moft fit for them to feed with- 

 out danger j and that is the Night, as they fuppofe, 

 thinking then they may moft fecurely range abroad. 



In your Night-angling take two great Garden- 

 worms of an equal length, and place them on your 

 Hook ^ then caft them a good diitance,and draw them 

 to you again upon the fuperficies of the Water, not 

 fuffering them to fink-, to which end you muft not 

 ufe a Plummet. You may cafily hear the Fifh rife, and 

 therefore give him feme time to fwallow your Bait, 

 then ftrike him gently. Ifhe will not take it at the 

 top, fink your Bait by adding fome Lead, and order 

 your felf as at Day-angling on the Ground. 



I have frequently experienced it,that the beft Tronts 

 bite in the Night, rifing moft commonly in the ftill 

 Deeps,but unuiually in the Streams. 



Inftead of thefe Garden- worms you may ufe a black 

 Snail, or a piece of Velvet in its likenefs .• this is a 

 moft excellent Night-bait for aTVewt, and nothing 

 like the black Snail for a Chih in the Morning early. 



You may bait your Hook with a Mimow for a 

 Trout thus : put your Hook through the point of his 

 lower Chap, and draw it througli ^ then put your 

 Hook in at his Mouth,and bring the point to his Tail^ 

 then draw your Line ftraight, and it will bring him 

 into a round compafs : But befure you fo order his 

 Mouth that the Water get not in. 



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