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If you go forth in or immediately after a showre, 

 and take the water in the first rising, and fish in the 

 streame at the ground with a red worme, you may 

 load your sede, if there be a store. Thus may any 

 botcher kill fish. 



I have seen the above method practised with great 

 success on the Dartmoor streams by the local fisher- 

 men. They wait till the water is discoloured and 

 rising, in consequence of recent rains, then these 

 " botchers " rush off and catch with worms their great 

 store of fish. 



On the subject of rods, Lawson writes : 



I use a rod of two parts, to joyne in the midst 

 when I come to the river, with two pins, and a little 

 hempe waxed, thus the pins joyne it, the hempe 

 fastens it firmely. 



A Whale bone made round no bigger than a wheat 

 straw at the top, yields well, and strikes well. 



