the Hook is off the Shank, without doubt it will lefs 

 hurt the fifh : and it muH be armed with fmall Wyre 

 well foftned ^ but certaioly a hook armed with twilt- 

 ed Silk is better. 



If yoa arm your hook with W^yre, the Needle mull 

 be made with an Eve^ then mull he take one of thole 

 living Baits, and with one of his Needles enter within 

 a Straws breadth of the Gill of the Fifh, fo pull the 

 Needle betwixt the Skin and the Filh , then pull the 

 Needle out at the hindmofl Fin, and draw the Arming 

 thorough the Fifli, until the Hook come to lie clofe to 

 the Fifties Body : having fo done, let him put off in 

 Meere or pond with the Wind ^ in the River with 

 the Stream .- the more that he pulls off in Meere or 

 Pond, he is the likelier to have the greater faltirae. 



There is a time when Pikes go a Frogging in Ditch- 

 es , and in the River to Sun them, as in May^ Juncy 

 and July j at theJe times you fhall hardly mils one in 

 twenty ; and thus mufl the Angler deal with them. 

 Let him take a Line of Seven or Eight foot , and let 

 him arm a large Hook of the largefl fize that is made, 

 and arm it to his Line ^ let him lead the ftiankofhis 

 Hook neatly, offuch a weight that he may guide the 

 Hook at his pleafuie. He may flrikethe Pike that 

 he fees with the bare Hook where he pleafes.This Line 

 and Hook doth far exceed Snaring. 



In the taking of a Carp either in Pond or River, if 

 the Angler intends to add Profit to his Pleafure , he 

 mufl takea Peckof Ale-Grains and a good quantity 

 of any Blood, and mix the Grains together, with 

 which let him bait the Ground wherein he intends to 

 Angle. Thisfeed will wonderfully attrad theScale- 

 fifli , as Carp., Tern h J Roach ^ Dace, and Bream. In the 

 Morning early let him profecute his paflime., plumb- 

 ing his ground, and Angling for a Carp with a flrong 

 Line : the bait mull be either falle, or a knotted red 



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