AND OF THE BULL-HEAD AND STICKLEBAG 



Summer, but only to make sport for boys and women-anglers, 

 and to feed other fish that be fish of prey, as Trouts in particular, 

 who will bite at him as at a Penk, and better, if your hook be 

 rightly baited with him : for he may be so baited, as his tail 

 turning like the sail of a windmill, will make him turn more 

 quick than any Penk or Minnow can. For note, that the nimble 

 turning of that or the Minnow is the perfection of Minnow- 

 Fishing. To which end, if you put your hook into his mouth, 

 and out at his tail, and then having first tied him with white 

 thread a little above his tail, and placed him after such a manner 

 on your hook as he is like to turn, then sew up his mouth to your 

 line, and he is like to turn quick, and tempt any Trout : but if he 

 do not turn quick, then turn his tail a little more or less towards 

 the inner part, or towards the side of the hook; or put the 

 Minnow or Sticklebag a little more crooked or more straight on 

 your hook, until it will turn both true and fast : and then doubt 

 not but to tempt any great Trout that lies in a swift stream. 

 And the Loach that I told you of, will do the like : no bait is 

 more tempting, provided the Loach be not too big. 



And now, Scholar, with the help of this fine morning, and 

 your patient attention, I have said all that my present memory 

 will afford me concerning most of the several fish that are 

 usually fished for in fresh waters. 



VENATOR. But, Master, you have by your former civility made 

 me hope that you will make good your promise, and say some- 

 thing of the several rivers that be of most note in this nation ; 

 and also of Fish-ponds, and the ordering of them, and do it, I 

 pray, good Master, for I love any discourse of rivers, and fish 

 and fishing, the time spent in such discourse passes away very 

 pleasantly. 



149 



