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commonly grows tougher, and will better endure baiting; 

 though he is yet so tender, that it will be necessary to warp in 

 a piece of a stiff hair with your arming, leaving it standing out 

 about a 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 arm- 

 ing 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 choose ; which 

 itself will resemble, and shine like that bait, and consequently 

 will do more good, or less harm, than an arming of any other 

 color. These grubs are to be baited thus : the hook is to be 

 put in 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 especially, 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 some- 

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

 to an artificial fly to cover the point of the 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 hold- 

 ing-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, 



