ANGLING IMPROVED. 



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the other way you traverse twice so much, and beat not 

 so much ground as downwards. 



14. Keep the sun, and moon, it night, before you, 

 if your eyes will endure, which I much question, at 

 least be sure to have those planets on your side, for if 

 they be on your back, your rod will with its shadow of- 

 fend much, and the fish see further and clearer, when 

 they look towards those lights, than the contrary; as 

 you may experiment thus in a dark night, if a man come 

 betwixt you and any light, you see him clearly, but not 

 at all if the light come betwixt you and him. 



15. When you angle for the Trout, you need not 

 make above three or four trials in one place, either with 

 fly or ground-bait, for he will then either take it, or 

 make an offer, or not stir at all, and so you lose time to 

 stay there any longer. 



PKARCH bites exceedingly well at all sorts of 

 earth-worms, especially lob-worms, brandlings, bobs, 

 oak- worms, gentles, cad-bait, wasps, dores, minnows, 

 colwort-worm,and often at almost any bait, save the fly. 



He bites well all day long in seasonable weather, 

 but chiefly from eight in the morning till after ten, and 

 from a little before three in the afternoon till almost five. 



