20 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



ever he should be possessed of one, about four- 

 teen inches wide. He should always take out 

 with him, lines coiled up. Spare links. Two 

 worm bags, one for brandlings, &c. and the 

 other for lob-worms. A plummet to fix the depth 

 of the water of a pyramidal form. A gentle 

 box. Floats and spare caps. Split shot. Shoe- 

 -makers wax in a piece of leather. Silk. Hooks, 

 some whipped on and some loose. A clearing 

 ring, which is of use to disengage the hook 

 when entangled, A landing net, to land large 

 fish with. The disgorger, which when a fish 

 has gorged the hook, by putting it down his 

 throat till you touch the hook, at the same 

 time pulling the line, it will easily come away. 



CHAP. III. 



The general Baits used in Angling, where found, 

 and how preserved 



THE reader being furnished with the best rules 

 relative to his rods, lines, hooks, 8tc. I shall give 

 him a list of the baits in general of use in ang- 

 ling; but must desire him to observe, that fish 

 take all sorts of baits, most eagerly and freely, 

 when he presents them to them in such order 

 and manner as nature affords them, or as they 

 themselves generally gather them. 



THE LOB-WORM, DEW-WORM, GARDEN-WORM, 

 TWATCHEL, OR TREACIIET, 



Potfnd in a garden or church-yard, late in a 

 summer's evening, with a lanthorn ; when the 



