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very tempting bait, being a little hardened ori a warm tile, 

 and cut into fit pieces. Nay, mulberries, and those black- 

 berries which grow upon briars, be good baits for chubs or 

 carps : with these many have been taken in ponds, and in 

 some rivers where such trees have grown near the water, and 

 the fruits customarily dropped in it. And there be a hundred 

 other baits, more than can be well named, which, by constant 

 baiting the water, will become a tempting bait for any fish 

 in it. 



You are also to know, that there be divers kinds of cadis, 

 or case-worms, that are to be found in this nation, in several 

 distinct counties, and in several little brooks that relate to 

 bigger rivers ; as namely, one cadis called a piper, whose 

 husk or case is a piece of reed about an inch long, or longer, 

 and as big about as the compass of a two-pence. These worms 

 being kept three or four days in a woollen bag, with sand at 

 the bottom of it, and the bag wet once a day, will in three or 

 four days turn to be yellow ; and these be a choice bait for 

 the chub or chavender, or indeed for any great fish, for it is 

 a large bait. 



There is also a lesser cadis-worm, called a cock-spur, being 

 in fashion like the spur of a cock, sharp at one end ; and the 

 case or house, in which this dwells, is made of small husks 

 and gravel and slime, most curiously made of these, even so 

 as to be wondered at, but not to be made by man no more 

 than a king-fisher's nest can, which is made of little fishes' 

 bones, and have such a geometrical interweaving and connec- 

 tion, as the like is not to be done by the art of man : this 

 kind of cadis is a choice bait for any float-fish ; it is much 

 less than the piper-cadis, and to be so ordered ; and these 

 may be so preserved, ten, fifteen, or twenty days, or it may 

 be longer. 



There is also another cadis, called by some a straw- worm, 

 and by some a ruff-coat, whose house or case is made of little 

 pieces of bents, and rushes, and straws, and water- weeds, and 



earthen pots, over which tie a piece of linen or bladder, on to which you have 

 melted a layer of lard. To bait with salmon-roe, take a fine needle, threaded 

 with fine red silk, knotted at the end. Pass the needle and silk through as 

 many roe as will cover your hook from the point to beyond the shank. Insert 

 the roe at the knotted end of the silk, on the point of your hook, and then 

 wind the others side by side in the bend and up the shank of the hook a little 

 beyond the arming. There fasten your silk, anc 1 cut away the end of it. Two 

 or three roe will be sufficient for small fish ; from six to a dozen for the middle 

 and large-sized ones, ED. 



