20 ANGLING IMPROVED. 



use to strike if I discerned it might be within the length 

 of my line. 



/fy Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into 

 the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens 

 the fish ; therefore draw it back, and cast it again, that 

 the fly may fall first. 



,/S. When you try how to fit your colour to the fly, 

 wet your fur, hair, wool, or moccado, otherwise you 

 will fail in your work j for though when they are dry, 

 they exactly suit the colour of the fly, yet the water will 

 alter most colours, and make them lighter or darker. 



The best way to angle with the cad-bait, is to fish 

 with it on the top of the water, as you do with the fly; 

 it must stand upon the shank of the hook, in like man- 

 ner with the artificial fly ; if it come into the bend of 

 the hook, the fish will little or not at all value it, nor if 

 you pull the blue gut out of it ; and to make it keep that 

 place, you must, when you set on your hook, fasten a 

 horse hair or two under the silk, with the ends standing 

 a very little out from under the silk, and pointing to- 

 wards the line ; this will keep it from sliding back into 

 the bend ; and thus used, it is a most excellent bait for 

 a Trout. You may imitate the cad-bait, by making the 

 body of chamois, the head of black silk. 



I might here notice several sorts of flies, with the 

 colours that are used to make them ; but for the rea- 

 sons before given, that their colours alter in several 

 rivers and soils, and also because, though I name the 

 colours, yet it is not easy to choose that colour by any 

 description, except so largely performed as would be 



