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the swiftness or slowness of it ; and both, when the water is very 

 clear, as fine as you can ; and then you are never to bait with 

 above one of the lesser sort of brandlings ; or, if they are very 

 little ones indeed, you may then bait with two, after the manner 

 before directed. 



When you angle for a trout, you are to do it as deep, that is, 

 as near the bottom as you can, provided your bait do not drag ; or 

 if it do, a trout will sometimes take it in at that posture if for 

 a grayling, you are then to fish further from the bottom, he 

 being a fish that usually swims nearer the middle of the water, 

 and lies always loose ; or however, is more apt to rise than a 

 trout, and more inclined to rise than to descend even to a 

 ground-bait. 



With a grub or cadis, you are to angle with the same length 

 of line, or if it be all out as long as your rod it is not the worse, 

 with never above one hair, for two or three lengths next the 

 hook, and with the smallest cork or float, and the least weight 

 of plumb you can that will but sink, and that the swiftness of 

 your stream will allow ; which also you may help, and avoid the 

 violence of the current, by angling in the returns of a stream, 

 or the eddies betwixt two streams, which also are the most 

 likely places wherein to kill a fish in a stream, either at the top 

 or bottom. 



Of grubs for a grayling, the ash-grub, which is plump, milk- 

 white, bent round from head to tail, and exceeding tender, with 

 a red head, or the dock-worm, or grub of a pale yellow, longer, 

 lanker, and tougher than the other, with rows of feet all down 

 his belly, and a red head also, are the best ; I say, for a gray- 

 ling, because, although a trout will take both these, the ash- 

 grub especially, yet he does not .do it so freely as the other, 

 and I have usually taken ten graylings for one trout with that 

 bait ; though if a trout come, I have observed that he is com- 

 monly a very good one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran, in which an ash-grub 

 commonly grows tougher, and will better endure baiting ; though 

 he is yet so tender, that it will be necessary to warp in a piece 

 of a stiff hair with your arming, leaving it standing out about a 



