le top of your Rod, call your b?.ic into feme likely 

 lace, andmoveic up and down in the w.iterasvou 

 'alk gently by the Ri vei-lide : when you have a b te 

 which you mdy ealily feel, for he wiJJ give a Aood 

 ig; befure to give him Line enough, lou 

 lay let him lie almoft a quarter of an hour be- 

 ne you ftrike; and then ha- c a care you do it not 

 >o Jerceiy, ieit you endanger your Tackle, and ioie 

 le rifh to boot» 



If you fi/h at Snap, you mull give him leave to rUn 

 httle,thenltnke,ItnKmgthe contrary way to which 

 J runneth For this way of Angling,a Spring hook 

 bcft ; and your Tackle muft be much ftronger than 

 lat [or the Trow],becaufe you muft ftrike with erei 

 ;r torce. ° 



Here note,that a large Bait more invites the Pike to 

 te.but the lellcr takes him more infallibly, either at 

 laporTrowi. ;, ^uiici dt 



If you filh with a dead bait for a /'%,this is a rnofl 

 xellenr bait : Take a Mmow, Frog that is yellow, 

 [ace or Roach, and having diffolved Gum of Ivy ii' 

 a ot Spike, anoint your baith therewith, and raYu if 

 here n/'.;. frequent. Having Iain a little while at 

 .ttom draw it to the top, and fo up the StrcanLand 

 >u will quickly perceive aPiks fol.owic with much 

 gerneis. 



A Pike will bite at all baits, excepting the Fly arr» 

 tes bell about three in the afternoon in clear water 

 ith a gentle gale, from the middle of Summer to 

 e latter end of Autumm^ he then bites beft in ftil I 

 ^ces or a gentle Stream : but in Winter he bites nf 1 

 s day long. In the latter end, and beginning of th-^ 

 ring, he b tes mofi: eagerly euly in the mon^u/ 

 d late m the evening "''' 



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