28 ANGLING IMPROVED. 



streams, they avoid the offence of a float, and yet per- 

 fectly discern the biting of the fish, and so order them- 

 selves accordingly ; but this lias its inconvenience, viz. 

 the lying of the line in the water. 



4. Give all fish time to gorge the bait, and be not 

 over hasty, except you angle with such tender baits as 

 will not endure nibbling at, but must upon every touch 

 be struck at, as sheep's-blood and flies, which are taken 

 away at the first pull of the fish, and therefore enforce 

 you, at the first touch, to try your fortune. 



Now we are to speak next of baits, more particu- 

 larly proper for every fish, wherein I shall observe this 

 method, first to name the fish, then the baits, accord- 

 ing as my experience hath proved them grateful to the 

 fish ; and to place them as near as I can in such order as 

 they come in season, though many of them are in sea- 

 son at one instant of time, and equally good. I would 

 not be understood, as if when a new bait comes in, the 

 old one were antiquated and useless ; for I know the 

 worm lasts all the year, flies all the Summer, one sort 

 of bob-worm all the Winter, the other under cow-dung, 

 in June and July; but I intimate that some are found 

 when others are not in rerum natura. 



