WITH DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR HIM 



rule without an exception, so there are some few rivers in this 

 nation, that have Trouts and Salmons in season in Winter, as 

 'tis certain there be in the river Wye in Monmouthshire, where 

 they be in season, as Camden observes, from September till 

 April. But, my Scholar, the observation of this and many 

 other things, I must in manners omit, because they will prove 

 too large for our narrow compass of time, and therefore 

 I shall next fall upon my directions, how to fish for this 

 Salmon. 



And for that, first you shall observe, that usually he stays 

 not long in a place as Trouts will, but, as I said, covets still to 

 go nearer the spring-head ; and that he does not as the Trout, 

 and many other fish, lie near the water-side or bank or roots 

 of trees, but swims in the deep and broad parts of the water, 

 and usually in the middle, and near the ground, and that there 

 you are to fish for him, and that it is to be caught as the 

 Trout is, with a Worm, a Minnow, which some call a Penk, 

 or with a Fly. 



And you are to observe, that he is very seldom observed to 

 bite at a Minnow, yet sometimes he will, and not usually at a fly, 

 but more usually at a worm, and then most usually at a Lob or 

 Garden-worm, which should be well scoured, that is to say, kept 

 seven or eight days in moss before you fish with them : and if 

 you double your time of eight into sixteen, twenty, or more days, 

 it is still the better, for the worms will still be clearer, tougher, 

 and more lively, and continue so longer upon your hook ; and 

 they may be kept longer by keeping them cool and in fresh moss, 

 and some advise to put camphor into it. 



Note also, that many use to fish for a Salmon with a ring of 

 wire on the top of their rod, through which the line may run to 

 as great a length as is needful when he is hooked. And to that 

 end, some use a wheel about the middle of their rod, or near their 

 hand, which is to be observed better by seeing one of them, than 

 by a large demonstration of words. 



And now I shall tell you, that which may be called a secret : 

 I have been a-fishing with old Oliver Henley, now with God, a 

 noted Fisher both for Trout and Salmon, and have observed, 

 that he would usually take three or four worms out of his bag, 

 and put them into a little box in his pocket, where he would 



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