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take any kind of fish, with float or otherwise. I might tell you 

 of many more, which as these do early, so those have their time 

 also of turning to be flies later in summer ; but I might lose my- 

 self and tire you by such a discourse. I shall, therefore, but re- 

 member you, that to know these and their several kinds, and to 

 what flies every particular Cadis turns, and then how to use 

 them, first as they be Cadis, and after as they be flies, is an 

 art, and an art that every one that professes to be an Angler has 

 not leisure to search after ; and, if he had, is not capable of 

 learning. 



I '11 tell you, Scholar, several countries have several kinds of 

 Cadises, that indeed differ as much as dogs do : that is to say, 

 as much as a very cur and a greyhound do. These be usually 

 bred in the very little rills or ditches that run into bigger 

 rivers ; and, I think, a more proper bait for those very rivers 

 than any other. I know not, or of what, this Cadis receives 

 life, or what colored fly it turns to ; but doubtless they are the 

 death of many Trouts : and this is one killing way. 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow Cadis : 

 pull off his head, and with it pull out his black gut ; put the 

 body, as little bruised as is possible, on a very little hook, 

 armed on with a red hair, which will show like the Cadis-head ; 

 and a very little thin lead, so put upon the shank of the hook 

 that it may sink presently. Throw this bait, thus ordered, 

 which will look very yellow, into any great still hole where a 

 Trout is, and he will presently venture his life for it, 't is not 

 to be doubted, if you be not espied ; and that the bait first 

 touch the water, before the line : and this will do best in the 

 deepest, stillest water. 



Next let me tell you, I have been much pleased to walk 

 quietly by a brook with a little stick in my hand, with which 

 I might easily take these and consider the curiosity of their 

 composure : and if you shall ever like to do so, then note that 

 your stick must be a little hazel or willow, cleft, or have a nick 

 at one end of it, by which means you may with ease take many 



