OBSERVATIONS OF CADIS 



Cadises, that indeed differ as much as dogs do : that is to say, 

 as much as a very cur and a greyhound do. These be usually 

 bred in the very little rills or ditches that run into bigger rivers, 

 and I think a more proper bait for those very rivers, than any 

 other. I know not how or of what this Cadis receives life, or 

 what coloured fly it turns to ; but doubtless, they are the death 

 of many Trouts, and this is one killing way. 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow Cadis, 

 pull off his head, and with it pull out his black gut, put the body, 

 as little bruised as is possible, on a very little hook, armed on 

 with a red hair, which will shew like the Cadis-head, and a very 

 little thin lead, so put upon the shank of the hook that it may 

 sink presently; throw this bait thus ordered, which will look 

 very yellow, into any great still hole, where a Trout is, and he 

 will presently venture his life for it, 'tis not to be doubted, if you 

 be not espied, and that the bait first touch the water, before the 

 line; and this will do best in the deepest stillest water. 



Next let me tell you, I have been much pleased to walk 

 quietly by a brook with a little stick in my hand, with which 

 I might easily take these and consider the curiosity of their 

 composure : and if you shall ever like to do so, then note, that 

 your stick must be a little hasel or willow, cleft, or have a nick 

 at one end of it, by which means you may with ease take many 

 of them in that nick out of the water, before you have any 

 occasion to use them. These, my honest Scholar, are some 

 observations told to you as they now come suddenly into my 

 memory, of which you may make some use : but for the practical 

 part, it is that that makes an Angler: it is diligence, and 

 observation, and practice, and an ambition to be the best in 

 the art that must do it. I will tell you, Scholar, I once heard one 

 say, * I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him 

 that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy 

 nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do/ 

 And such a man is like to prove an Angler, and this noble 

 emulation I wish to you and all young Anglers. 



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