THE ANCIENT ART OF TROLLING 93 



It may be premised, however, in a general way, 

 that the device of trolling, as we learned it as boys, 

 was based upon the idea of running a leaded wire 

 through a dead fish from the mouth to the tail, 

 leaving one or two hooks closely lying up the outside 

 with barb protruding slightly from the side or sides 

 of the mouth. Broadly speaking, Dame Juliana 

 Berners acted upon the same principle. This is the 

 paragraph upon the subject from ( The Treatyse of 

 Fysshynge,' and, although it is not trolling proper, it 

 will be seen, that it is the origin of the plan ; but this 

 tackle required a float, and the dead fish so baited on 

 a codling hook was left to dangle in the water : 



The pyke is a good fysshe : but for he devouryth so 

 many as well of his owne kynde as of other : I loue hym 

 the lesse. & for to take hym ye shall doo thus. Take 

 a codlynge hoke : & take a roche or a fresshe heering 

 & a wyre wyth an hole in the ende : & put it in at 

 the mouth and out at the taylle downe by the ridge of 

 the fresshe heeryng. And thenne put the lyne of your 

 hoke in after & drawe the hoke in to the cheke of the 

 fresshe heeryng. Then put a plumbe of lede vpon your 

 lyne a yerde longe from youre hoke & a flote in myd- 

 waye betwene : & caste it in a pytte where the pyke 

 vsyth. And this is the beste and moost surest crafte of 

 takynge the pyke. 



We advance a little further in a ' Booke of Fishing 

 with Hooke and Line' by *L.M.,' printed by John 



