Striped Bass. 



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delectation, O reader, the quaint 

 advice given by that sainted 

 patroness of the angle, Dame 

 Juliana Berners, nearly four 

 hundred years ago. There is a 

 flavor of mold about the fine old 

 English, but it contains the sum 

 and essence of all scientific ang- 

 ling. Here it is, crisp and fresh 

 as when it was first written, 

 though the hand that penned it 

 has long since crumbled into 

 dust, and the generation for 

 whose "dysporte"it was "em- 

 pryntyd" by Wynkyn de Worde 

 have been casting their flies 

 from the further bank of the 

 Styx this many a long year : 



FISHING A. D. I496. (FROM " WALTON'S COM- 

 PLETE ANOLKR.") 



"jta vf tt fortune vott to smyt a gret fist) toitl) a small bamays, ttjntnc 

 vt must leoc Ijrm in rt)r mater ano labour l)rm tbere tvll Ije be orounpD ano 

 overcome ; tbrnne tafee tjvm as well as i?e can or maye, ano etter be toaar 

 tbat ve tjolDe not otter rtjr strengtbe of your hmr, ano as mocbe as ye map 

 lete tjvm not tome out of vour line's enoc streygbte from you ; but ftepe 

 bym etter ttnDer rtje roooe, ano euermore botoe \jvm streygtjte, so rtjat your 

 lyne mar be sttstewe ano beere \)ti lepys ano \)i& plungys tnytb rtje t)clpc of 

 rottr eropp ano of vottr bonOr." 



