The Compleat ^Angler 





divers kinds of it, which I could name to you, but I will only tell 

 you that that which is likest a buck's-horn is the best, except it be 

 soft white moss, which grows on some heaths, and is hard to be 

 found. And note, that in a very dry time, when you are put to an 

 extremity for worms, walnut-tree leaves squeezed into water, or salt 

 in water, to make it bitter or salt, and then that water poured on the 

 ground, where you shall see worms are used to rise in the night, will 

 make them to appear above ground presently. And you may take 

 notice, some say that camphor, put into your bag with your moss 

 and worms, gives them a strong and so tempting a smell, that the 

 fish fare the worse and you the better for it. 



And now I shall show you how to bait your hook with a worm, 

 so as shall prevent you from much trouble, and the loss of many a 

 hook too, when you fish for a trout with a running-line, that is to 

 say, when you fish for him by hand at the ground : I will direct you 

 in this as plainly as I can, that you may not mistake. 



Suppose it be a big lob-worm, put your hook into him somewhat 



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