166 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



increase and multiply, much more than they did 

 many Years before. 



A very ingenious method is described for making a 

 luminous float to be used for carp-fishing at night. 

 It consists in placing a glow-worm inside a swan- 

 quill float. In dealing also with carp-fishing the 

 author recommends the use of a boom, similar to that 

 now used in sea-fishing, for the purpose of keeping 

 two hooks apart. The boom consists of a piece of 

 brass wire 1 2 inches long ; the line is whipped to the 

 middle of the wire, " so as the two Hooks and Wire 

 may hang even at the End of the long Line, like a 

 Pair of Scales." 



In angling for tench the angler is recommended 

 to nip off the head of the worm, which is threaded on 

 the hook tail first with the head left hanging 

 unthreaded. The success achieved by nipping off the 

 head of the worm is attributed either to the worm 

 being thus prevented from creeping into the mud or 

 under stones, or else to the worm more closely 

 resembling the chopped up portions of worms thrown 

 in as ground-bait. In hot weather when the tench are 

 swimming nearer the surface of the water, the float 

 may be dispensed with, and the bait drawn up and 

 down in the water among the weeds. 



In describing bream-fishing, Howlett refers the 

 reader to Mr Isaak Walton, in his Compleat Angler. 



A very unsportsmanlike way of fishing for roach 

 below London Bridge is described : a heavily 



