CHAPTER XII 



ISC. Angling in the middle, then, for a trout or 

 grayling, is of two sorts : with a penk or minnow 

 for a trout ; or with a worm, grub, or cadis, 

 for a grayling. 



For the first. It is with a minnow, half a 

 foot or a foot within the superficies of the water. 



And as to the rest that concerns this sort of 



angling, I shall wholly refer you to Mr. Walton's directions, who 

 is undoubtedly the best angler with a minnow in England ; only, 

 in plain truth, I do not approve of those baits he keeps in salt, unless 

 where the living ones are not possibly to be had (though I know he 

 frequently kills with them, and peradventure, more than with any 

 other ; nay, I have seen him refuse a living one for one of them) ; 

 and much less of his artificial one ; for though we do it with a 

 counterfeit fly, me thinks it should hardly be expected that a man should 



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