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line, one half a foot above the other : I have seen five caught 

 thus at one time, and the bait has been gentles, than which 

 none is better. 



Or this fish may be caught with a fine small artificial fly, 

 which is to be of a very sad brown colour, and very small, 

 and the hook answerable. There is no better sport than 

 whipping for bleaks in a boat, or on a bank, in the swift 

 water , in a summer's evening, with a hazel top about five or 

 six foot long, and a line twice the length of the rod. I have 

 heard Sir Henry Wotton say, that there be many that in 

 Italy will catch swallows so, or especially martins ;* this bird- 

 angler standing on the top of a steeple to do it, arid with a 

 line twice so long as I have spoken of. And let me tell 

 you, scholar, that both martins and bleaks be most excellent 

 meat. 



And let me tell you, that I have known a hern that did 

 constantly frequent one place, caught with a hook baited 

 with a big minnow or small gudgeon. The line and hook 

 must be strong, and tied to some loose staff, so big as she 

 cannot fly away with it, a line not exceeding two yards. 



several links of ten beads in each, between two larger beads. Rosaries are 

 especially used by Roman Catholics when saying penitential prayers, enjoined 

 by the confessor before he can grant absolution. For instance, so many pater- 

 nosters and Ave Marias, or Ifail Maries, for some particular sin confessed. 

 Pater-noster lines are now generally used for perch-fishing. They seldom have 

 more than three hooks, projecting, by means of being whipped on a pig's 

 bristle, from the foot-line at least one foot apart. The hook nearest the bottom, 

 should be baited with a worm, the next with a live gudgeon or minnow, and 

 that nearest the surface of the water with a gentle. Pike are frequently fished 

 for with a very strong pater-noster, mounted with large hooks, each of which 

 is to be baited with a live gudgeon, dace, roach, or small trout. This line is 

 sunk by means of a bullet. See remarks at the end of Chapter XII. ED.] 



* Sir J. Hawkins says, this practice was common in England in his time. It 

 is not so now. However, it frequently happens that when a fly-fisher is walk- 

 ing along the banks, or through the fields, with his rod held perpendicularly, 

 and his artificial flies streaming behind in the air, that they are taken by swal- 

 lows, swifts, martins, and several of the fly-catching tribe of birds. If artificial 

 flies deceive fish, why should they not deceive birds ? ED. 



