THE THIRD DAY. 



CHAPTER XI. 



VIATOR. 



SO, Sir, now we are here, and set, let me have my instruc- 

 tions for Angling for Trout and Grayling, at the Bottom ; 

 which, though not so easy, so cleanly, nor, as 't is said, so 

 genteel, a way of fishing, as with a fly, is yet (if I mistake not) 

 a good holding way, and takes fish when nothing else will. 



Pise. You are in the right, it does so ; and a worm is so sure 

 a bait at all times, that, excepting in a flood, I would I had 

 laid a thousand pounds that I killed fish more or less with it, 

 winter or summer, every day throughout the year ; those days 

 always excepted that, upon a more serious account, always ought 

 so to be. But not longer to delay you, I will begin : and tell 

 you, that Angling at the Bottom is also commonly of two sorts ; 

 and yet there is a third way of angling with a ground-bait, 

 and to very great effect too, as shall be said hereafter ; namely, 

 by Hand, or with a Cork or Float. 



That we call Angling by Hand is of three sorts. 



The first : with a line about half the length of the rod, a good 

 weighty plumb, and three hairs next the hook, which we call a 

 running-line, and with one large brandling, or a dew-worm of 

 a moderate size, or two small ones of the first, or any other sort, 

 proper for a Trout, of which my Father Walton has already 

 given you the names, and saved me a labor ; or, indeed, almost 

 any worm whatever ; for if a Trout be in the humor to bite, it 

 must be such a worm as I never yet saw that he will refuse ; and 

 if you fish with two, you are then to bait your hook thus. You 



