You may have three or four Rods out at a time 

 Ituck in the Bank-fide,ancl let them be iong,the Floats 

 Swan or Goole-quills, which mult be funk with 

 Lead, the tops bearing above water about half an 

 Inch. Let your Rods be call in one above the other 

 about a yard and a half diftant, and then withdraw 

 your fejf from the Bank fo far that you can perceive 

 nothing but the top of the Float j and when you per- 

 ceive it fink,then creep to the Water-fide, and give 

 it as much Line as you can : if it bea C^r;? or J^ream, 

 they will run to the other fide ^ then ftrike gently, 

 and hold your Rod at a bent a Jittle while, but do noE 

 pull, for then you fpoil all ^ but you mult firlt tire 

 them before you can land them, being very Ihic. Of 

 the two, the Car^ is the worit, being more brisk and 

 llrong. 



Here take notice by the way, if Pik§ or Tearch be 

 thereabout, it will be but a folly to think of killing 

 Carp or Bream ^ and therefore you muft remove thofe 

 obllaclesjby filhing them out fir{t. And to the intent 

 you may know whether there be thoie Filh of Prey 

 thereabout, take a fmali Blcak^or G udgccf ^^-sind bait it, 

 fetting it alive among yoijr RodSj two foot deep from 

 your hloat, with a little rtd Worm at the point of 

 your Hook : if a Pike be th^re., he will certainly fnap 

 at it. 



Of tLoBhtA^. 



THE Bleak, is. an eager liili, and iscaugiit vfiih, 

 all forts of Worms bred on Tr'^es or Plants, al- 

 fo with Flies, Pafte, Sheeps-blojjd, d c You may an- 

 gle for them with half a (core Hooks at once, ifyou 

 can fallen them a'l on. Alfo \n an Evening the Bleak, 

 will take the natural or artincial Fly. 



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