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same, when they shew themselves at the top of the 

 water, as with the natural fly, than if you use it under : 

 for I have observed, that when a gale of wind shakes 

 the trees, the worms fall into the water, and presently 

 rise and float on the top, where I have seen the fish rise 

 at them, as at flies, which taught me this experience ; 

 and indeed they sink not, till tost and beaten by the 

 stream, and so die and lose their colour; the fish then, 

 as you may see by your own on your hook, do not much 

 esteem them. 



8. There are two, some say three, sorts of cad- 

 bait; the one bred under stones, that lie hollow in shal- 

 low rivers, or small brooks, in a very fine gravelly case 

 or husk, these are yellow when ripe : the other in old 

 pits, ponds, or slow running rivers, or ditches, in cases 

 or husks of straw, sticks, or rushes, these are green 

 when ripe : both are excellent for TROUT, used as before 

 directed, and for most sorts of small fish. The green 

 sort, which is bred in pits, ponds, or ditches, may be 

 found in March, before the other yellow ones comes in ; 

 the other yellow ones come in season with May, or the 

 end of April, and go out in July: a second sort, but 

 smaller, come in again in August. 



9. Yellow bobs are also of two sorts, the one bred 

 in mellow light soils, and gathered after the plough, 

 when the land is first broken up from grazing, and are 

 in season in the Winter till March; the other sort is 

 bred under cow-dung, hath a red head ; and these are in 

 season in the Summer only : scour them in bran, or dry 

 moss, or meal. 



