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next the hook, and for two or three lengths above it ; and no 

 more than one small pellet or shot for your plumb ; your hook, 

 little ; your worms of the smaller brandlings, very well secured, 

 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 tag 

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

 stripped on an inch at least upon the hair, the head and remain- 

 ing 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 fly ; 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 fly : 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 constitution 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. 



The second way of angling at the bottom is with a cork or 

 float ; and that is also of two sorts ; with a worm, or with a grub 

 or cadis. 



With a worm, you are to have your line within a foot, or a 

 foot and a half as long as your rod ; in a dark water, with two, 

 or if you will with three, but in a clear water never with above 

 one hair next the hook, and two or three for four or five lengths 

 above it, and a worm of what size you please, your plumbs, fitted 

 to your cork, your cork to the condition of the river, that is, to 



