AND HOW TO FISH FOR THEM 



that be too early in the year, then doubtless you may find them 

 in July, August, and most of September, gather them alive with 

 both their wings, and then put them into a glass that will hold 

 a quart or a pottle ; but first put into the glass a handful or 

 more of the moist earth, out of which you gather them, and as 

 much of the roots of the grass of the said hillock, and then put 

 in the flies gently, that they lose not their wings : lay a clod 

 of earth over it, and then so many as are put into the glass 

 without bruising, will live there a month or more, and be always 

 in a readiness for you to fish with ; but if you would have them 

 keep longer, then get any great earthen pot, or barrel of three 

 or four gallons, which is better, then wash your barrel with 

 water and honey ; and having put into it a quantity of earth 

 and grass-roots, then put in your flies, and cover it, and they 

 will live a quarter of a year ; these in any stream and clear 

 water, are a deadly bait for Roach or Dace, or for a Chub ; 

 and your rule is, to fish not less than a handful from the 

 bottom. 



I shall next tell you a Winter-bait for a Roach, a Dace or 

 Chub, and it is choicely good. About All-hallontide, and so till 

 frost comes, when you see men ploughing up heath-ground, 

 or sandy ground, or green-swards, then follow the plough, and 

 you shall find a white worm as big as two maggots, and it hath 

 a red head, you may observe in what ground most are, for there 

 the crows will be very watchful and follow the plough very 

 close ; it is all soft, and full of whitish guts : a worm that is in 

 Norfolk, and some other Counties, called a Grub, and is bred 

 of the spawn or eggs of a beetle, which she leaves in holes that 

 she digs in the ground under cow or horse-dung, and there rests 

 all Winter, and in March or April, comes to be first a red, and 

 then a black beetle : gather a thousand or two of these, and 

 put them with a peck or two of their own earth, into some tub 

 or firkin, and cover, and keep them so warm, that the frost, or 

 cold air, or winds kill them not ; these you may keep all Winter, 

 and kill fish with them at any time : and if you put some of 

 them into a little earth and honey a day before you use them, 

 you will find them an excellent bait for Bream, Carp, or indeed 

 for almost any fish. 



And after this manner you may also keep gentles all Winter, 



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