HOW TO FISH FOR THE TROUT 



and a right wind, he will catch such store of them, as will 

 encourage him to grow more and more in love with the art of 

 fly-making. 



VEN. But, my loving Master, if any wind will not serve, 

 then I wish I were in Lapland, to buy a good wind of one of 

 the honest witches, that sell so many winds there, and so 

 cheap. 



Pise. Marry, Scholar, but I would not be there, nor indeed 

 from under this tree : for look how it begins to rain, and by the 

 clouds, if I mistake not, we shall presently have a smoking 

 shower, and therefore sit close ; this sycamore-tree will shelter 

 us : and I will tell you, as they shall come into my mind, more 

 observations of fly-fishing for a Trout. 



But first for the wind, you are to take notice, that of the 

 winds the South wind is said to be best 



One observes, that 



When the wind is South, 

 It blows your bait into a fish's mouth. 



Next to that, the West wind is believed to be the best : 

 and having told you that the East wind is the worst, I need 

 not tell you which wind is the best in the third degree ; and yet 

 as Solomon observes, Eccles. xi. 4., that * he that considers the 

 wind shall never sow * : so he that busies his head too much 

 about them, if the weather be not made extreme cold by an 

 East wind, shall be a little superstitious : for as it is observed 

 by some, that there is no good horse of a bad colour ; so I have 

 observed that if it be a cloudy day, and not extreme cold, let 

 the wind sit in what corner it will, and do it's worst, I heed it 

 not. And yet take this for a rule, that I would willingly fish 

 standing on the lee-shore : and you are to take notice, that the 

 fish lies or swims nearer the bottom, and in deeper water in 

 Winter than in Summer ; and also nearer the bottom in a cold 

 day, and then gets nearest the lee-side of the water. 



But I promised to tell you more of the fly-fishing for a 

 Trout, which I may have time enough to do, for you see it rains 

 May-butter : first for a May-fly, you may make his body with 

 greenish-coloured crewel, or willowish-colour ; darkening it in 

 most places with waxed silk, or ribbed with black hair, or some 



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