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with a Line full as long, or a yard and a half longer 

 than your Rod, with no more than one hair next the 

 hook, and for two or three lengths above it, and no 

 more than one small pellet of shot for your plum, your 

 Hook little, your worms of the smaller Brandlings, 

 very well scour'd, and only one upon your hook at 

 a time, which is thus to be baited : The point of your 

 hook is to be put in at the very tagg of his tail, and 

 run up his body quite over all the arming, and still 

 stript on an inch at least upon the hair ; the head and 

 remaining part hanging downward ; and with this line 

 and hook thus baited you are evermore to angle in 

 the streams, always in a clear, rather than a troubled 

 water, and always up the River, still casting out your 

 worm before you with a light one-handed Rod, like an 

 artificial Flie, where it will be taken, sometimes at the 

 top, or within a very little .of the Superficies of the 

 water, and almost always before that light plumb can 

 sink it to the bottom, both by reason of the stream, 

 and also that you must always keep your worm in 

 motion by drawing still back towards you, as if you 

 were angling with a flie ; and believe me, whoever 

 will try it, shall find this the best way of all other to 

 angle with a worm, in a bright water especially ; but 

 then his rod must be very light and pliant, and very 

 true and finely made, which with a skilful hand, will 

 do wonders, and in a clear stream is undoubtedly the 

 best way of angling for a Trout, or Grayling with a 

 worm, by many degrees, that any man can make 

 choice of, and of most ease and delight to the Angler. 

 To which let me add, that if the Angler be of a con- 

 stitution that will suffer him to wade, and will slip 

 into the tail of a shallow stream, to the Calf of the leg 

 or the knee, and so keep off the bank, he shall almost 

 take what fish he pleases. 



