54 ANGLING IMPROVED. 



CHAP. X. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



1 . LET the Angler's apparel be sad dark colours, as sad 

 grey's, tawny, purple, hair, or musk colour. 



2. Use shoe-maker's wax to your silk or thread, 

 with which you make or mend either rod or fly; it 

 holds firmer, and sticks better than any other. 



3. Into such places as you use to angle at, once a 

 week at least, cast in all sorts of corn boiled soft, grains 

 washed in blood, blood dried and cut into pieces, snails, 

 worms chopped small, pieces of fowl, or beast's guts, 

 beast's livers ; for Carp and Tench you cannot feed too 

 often, or too much ; this course draweth the fish to the 

 place you desire. And to keep them together, cast 

 about twenty grains of ground malt at a time, now arid 

 then as you angle ; and indeed all sorts of baits are good 

 to cast in, especially whilst you are angling with that 

 bait, principally cad-bait, gentles, and wasps, and you 

 will find they will snap up yours more eagerly, and with 

 less suspicion; but by no means, when you angle in a 

 stream cast them in at your hook, but something above 

 where you angle, lest the stream carry them beyond 

 your hook, and so instead of drawing them to you, you 

 draw them from you. 



