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straw-breadth at the head of your hook, so as to keep the grub 

 either from slipping totally off when baited, or at least down to 

 the point of the hook ; by which means your arming will be left 

 wholly naked and bare, which is neither so sightly, nor so likely 

 to be taken : though to help that, which will however very oft 

 fall out, I always arm the hook I design for this bait with the 

 whitest horse-hair I can chuse, which itself will resemble, and 

 shine like that bait, and consequently will do more good, or less 

 harm, than an arming of any other colour. These grubs are to 

 be baited thus : the hook is to be put under the head or chaps 

 of the bait, and guided down the middle of the belly without 

 suffering it to peep out by the way, for then the ash-grub especi- 

 ally will issue out water and milk, till nothing but the skin shall 

 remain, and the bend of the hook will appear black, through it, 

 till the point of your hook come so low that the head of your 

 bait may rest, and stick upon the hair that stands out to hold it; 

 by which means it can neither slip of itself, neither will the force 

 of the stream, nor quick pulling out, upon any mistake, strip it 

 off. 



Now the cadis, or cod-bait, which is a sure killing bait, and, 

 for the most part, by much surer than either of the other, may 

 be put upon the hook, two or three together, and is sometimes, 

 to very great effect, joined to a worm, and sometimes to an 

 artificial fly, to cover the joint of your hook ; but is always to be 

 angled with at the bottom, when by itself especially, with the 

 finest tackle ; and is, for all times of the year, the most holding 

 bait of all other whatever, both for trout and grayling. 



There are several other baits besides these few I have named 

 you, which also do very great execution at the bottom, and some 

 that are peculiar to certain countries and rivers, of which every 

 angler may in his own place make his own observation ; and 

 some others that I do not think fit to put you in mind of, because 

 I would not corrupt you, and would have you, as in all things 

 else I observe you to be a very honest gentleman, a fair angler. 

 And so much for the second sort of angling for a trout at the 

 bottom. 



VIAT. But, sir, I beseech you give me leave to ask you one 



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