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" doping " : he then proceeds to relate, how his Lord, 

 one evening, directed him to catch a good dish of 

 trout before six in the morning, and the means by 

 which he provided the dish in time. At first, the night 

 being very dark, he used two lobworms on his hook ; 

 as the night became a little lighter, he put on a large 

 white palmer ; on it becoming lighter still, he changed 

 his fly for a red palmer ; and at last in full daylight he 

 put on a black palmer. 



In fishing for carp, Barker recommends a ground- 

 bait of brewer's grains, mixed with blood, over night, 

 and a hook bait of paste or a worm early in the 

 morning. For perch he recommends a ground of 

 chopped lobworms at night, and a hook bait of a worm 

 or a minnow in the morning, giving the preference 

 to the latter, which he transfixes through the back 

 with his hook, and allows to swim about buoyed up 

 by a cork or quill. 



Mr Marston, in his very interesting book on 

 Walton and the Earlier Fishing Writers, states that 

 Barker is the first author to " describe the use of the 

 reel or winch and the gaff in angling for Salmon or 

 other fish." This is not the case, for the passage 

 which Mr Marston quotes from Barker, describing 

 the use of the winch in salmon-fishing, does not 

 appear in the first edition of Barker published 1651, 

 but in the second edition of 1657 and 1659. Walton's 

 first edition appeared in 1653, and this contained no 

 mention of the winch, but in his second edition, 1655, 

 Walton is the first to mention the use of the winch 



