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plumbs fitted to your cork, your cork to the condition of the 

 river (that is, to 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 that post- 

 ure. If for a Grayling, you are then to fish further from the 

 bottom, he being a fish that usually swims nearer to 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, 't 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 swift- 

 ness 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 ten- 

 der, 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 Grayling : 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 commonly a very good one. 



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



