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draw up your worms and Eels, and when you have them 

 near the top of the water, hoist them amain to land ; and 

 thus you may take three or four at once, and good ones, 

 if there be store. 



1 . When you angle at ground, keep your line as 

 straight as possible, suffering none of it to lie in the 

 water, because it hinders the nimble jerk of the rod ; 

 but if, as sometimes it will happen, that you cannot 

 avoid but some little will lie in the water, yet keep it in 

 the stream above your float, by no means below it. 



2. When you angle at ground for small fish, put 

 two hooks to your line, fastened together thus : lay the 

 two hooks together, then draw the one shorter than the 

 other by nine inches, this will cause the other end to 

 over-reach as much, as the other is shorter at the 

 hooks, then turn that end back, and with a water- 

 knot, in which you must make both the links to fasten, 

 tie them so as both links may hang close together, and 

 not come out at both ends of the knot. Then upon that 

 link which hangeth longest, fasten your lead near a foot 

 above the hook; put upon your hooks two different baits, 

 and so you may try, with more ease and less time, what 

 bait the fish love best ; and also very often, as I have 

 done, take two fish at once with one rod. You have 

 also, by this experience, one bait for such as feed close 

 upon the ground, as Gudgeon, Flounder, &c. and an- 

 other for such as feed a lit tie higher, as Roach,Dace, &c. 



3. Some use to lead their lines heavily, and to set 

 their float about a foot or more from the end of the rod, 

 with a little lead to buoy it up, and thus in violent swift 



