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T know not what, which are so knit together with condensed 

 slime, that they stick about her husk or case, not unlike the 

 bristles of a hedgehog ; these three cadises are commonly 

 taken in the beginning of summer, and are good indeed to 

 take any kind of fish, with float or otherwise. I might tell 

 you of many more, which as these do early, so those have 

 their time also of turning to be flies later in summer ; but I 

 might lose myself and tire you by such a discourse : I shall 

 therefore but remember you, that to know these and their 

 several kinds, and to what flies every particular cadis turns, 

 and then how to use them, first as they be cadis, and after as 

 they be flies, is an art, and an art that every one that pro- 

 fesses to be an angler has not leisure to search after, and, if 

 he had. is not capable of learning. 



I will tell you, scholar, several countries have several kinds 

 of cadises, that indeed differ as much as dogs do ; that is to 

 say, as much as a very cur and a greyhound do. These be 

 usually bred in the very little rills, or ditches, that run into 

 bigger rivers : and I ttyink, a more proper bait for those very 

 rivers than any other. I know not how or of what, this 

 cadis receives life, or what coloured fly it turns to ; but doubt- 

 less they are the death of many trouts ; and this is one killing 

 way : 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow cadis : 

 pull off his head, and with it pull out his black gut ; put the 

 body, as little bruised as is possible, on a very little hook, 

 armed on with a red hair, which will show like the cadis head : 

 and a very little thin lead, so put upon the shank of the hook 

 that it may sink presently. Throw this bait, thus ordered, 

 which will look very yellow, into any great still hole where a 

 trout is, and he will presently venture his life for it, it is not 

 to be doubted, if you be not espied ; and that the bait first 

 touch the water before the line. And this will do best in 

 the deepest water. 



Next let me tell you, I have been much pleased to walk 

 quietly by a brook with a little stick in my hand, with which 

 I might easily take these, and consider the curiosity of their 

 composure : and if you shall ever like to do so, then note, 

 that your stick must be^a little hazel or willow, cleft, or have 

 a nick at one end of it ; by which means you may with ease 

 take many of them in that nick out of the water, before you 

 have any occasion to use them. These, my honest scholar, 

 are some observations told to you as they now come suddenly 



