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worm whatever; for if a trout be in the humour to bite, it must 

 be such a worm as I never yet saw, that he will refuse ; and if 

 you fish with two, you are then to bait your hook thus. You 

 are first to run the point of your hook in at the very head of your 

 first worm, and so down through his body, till he be past the 

 knot, and then let it out, and strip the worm above the arming, 

 that you may not bruise it with your fingers till you have put on 

 the other, by running the point of the hook in below the knot, 

 upwards through his body towards his head, till it be just 

 covered with the head ; which being done, you are then to slip 

 the first worm down over the arming again, till the knots of 

 both worms meet together. 



The second way of angling by hand, and with a running line, 

 is with a line something longer than the former, and with tackle 

 made after this same manner. At the utmost extremity of your 

 line, where the hook is always placed in all other ways of 

 anglingyyou are to have a large jjistol or carabine bullet, into 

 which the end of your line is to beTTastened with a peg or pin, 

 even and close with the bullet ; and, about half a foot above 

 that, a branch of line, of two or three handfuls long, or more for 

 a swift stream, with a hook at the end thereof, baited with some 

 of the fore-named worms, and half a foot above that, another 

 armed and baited after the same manner, but with another sort 

 of worm, without any lead at all above : by which means you 

 will always certainly find the true bottom in all depths ; which 

 with the plumbs upon your line above you can never do, but 

 that your bait must always drag whilst you are sounding (which 

 in this way of angling must be continually), by which means 

 you are like to have more trouble, and peradventure worse 

 success. And both these ways of angling at the bottom are 

 most proper for a dark and muddy water, by reason, that in 

 such a condition of the stream, a man may stand as near as he 

 will, and neither his own shadow nor the roundness of his tackle 

 will hinder his sport. 



The third way of angling by hand with a ground-bait, and by 

 much the best of all other, is, with a line full as long, or a yard 

 and a half longer, than your rod; with no more than one hair 



