AND HOW TO FISH FOR THEM 



or Case-worms, that are to be found in this nation in several 

 distinct Counties, and in several little brooks that relate to 

 bigger rivers ; as namely, one Cadis called a Piper, whose 

 husk or case is a piece of reed about an inch long or longer, 

 and as big about as the compass of a two-pence ; these worms 

 being kept three or four days in a woollen bag with sand at the 

 bottom of it, and the bag wet once a day, will in three or four 

 days turn to be yellow, and these be a choice bait for the Chub 

 or Chavender, or indeed for any great fish, for it is a large 

 bait. 



There is also a lesser Cadis-worm, called a Cock-spur, being 

 in fashion like the spur of a cock, sharp at one end, and the 

 case or house in which this dwells is made of small husks, and 

 gravel, and slime, most curiously made of these, even so as to 

 be wondered at, but not to be made by man no more than a 

 King-fisher's nest can, which is made of little fishes' bones, and 

 have such a geometrical interweaving and connection, as the 

 like is not to be done by the art of man : this kind of Cadis is a 

 choice bait for any float-fish, it is much less than the Piper- 

 Cadis, and to be so ordered ; and these may be so preserved, 

 ten, fifteen, or twenty days, or it may be longer. 



There is also another Cadis, called by some a Straw-worm, 

 and by some a Ruff-coat, whose house or case is made of little 

 pieces of bents, and rushes, and straws, and water-weeds, and 

 I know not what, which are so knit together with condensed 

 slime, that they stick about her husk or case, not unlike the 

 bristles of a Hedgehog; these three Cadises are commonly 

 taken in the beginning of Summer, and are good indeed to take 

 any kind of fish, with float or otherwise. I might tell you of 

 many more, which as these do early, so those have their time 

 also of turning to be flies later in Summer; but I might lose 

 myself and tire you by such a discourse, I shall therefore but 

 remember you, that to know these and their several kinds, and 

 to what flies every particular Cadis turns, and then how to 

 use them, first as they be Cadis, and after as they be flies, is an 

 art, and an art that every one that professes to be an Angler 

 has not leisure to search after, and if he had is not capable of 

 learning. 



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