

CHAPTER IV 



ISC. Why then, sir, to begin methodically, as a 

 master in any art should do (and I will not deny 

 but that I think myself a master in this) I shall 

 divide angling for trout or grayling into these 

 three ways : at the top, at the bottom, in the 

 middle. Which three ways, though they are all 

 of them (as I shall hereafter endeavour to make 

 it appear) in some sort common to both those kinds of fish ; yet are 

 they not so generally and absolutely so, but that they will necessarily 

 require a distinction, which, in due place, I will also give you. 



That which we call angling at the top is with a fly ; at the bottom^ 

 with a ground-bait ; in the middle, with a minnow or ground-bait. 



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