The Compleat ^Angler 



and I have had too many testimonies of this to doubt the truth of it 

 myself ; and if I thought it needful I might prove it, but I think it 

 is needless. 



And this eel, of which I have said so much to you, may be caught 

 with divers kinds of baits ; as namely, with powdered beef, with a 

 lob or garden-worm, with a minnow, or gut of a hen, chicken, or 

 the guts of any fish, or with almost anything, for he is a greedy fish ; 

 but the eel may be caught especially with a little, a very little 

 lamprey, which some call a pride, and may in the hot months be 

 found many of them in the river Thames, and in many mud-heaps 

 in other rivers, yea, almost as usually as one finds worms in a dunghill. 



Next note, that the eel seldom stirs in the day, but then hides 

 himself; and therefore he is usually caught by night, with one of 

 these baits of which I have spoken ; and may be then caught by 

 laying hooks, which you are to fasten to the bank, or twigs of a tree ; 

 or by throwing a string across the stream with many hooks at it, and 

 those baited with the aforesaid baits, and a clod, or plummet, or 



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