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of angling here with us, by reason of that exceeding clearness, 

 being something different from the method commonly used 

 in others, which by being not near so bright, admit of stronger 

 tackle, and allow a nearer approach to the stream ; I may 

 perad venture give you some instructions that may be of use, 

 even in your own rivers, and shall bring you acquainted with 

 more flies, and show you how to make them, and with what dub- 

 bing too, than he has taken notice of in his COMPLETE ANGLER. 

 YIAT. I beseech you, sir, do : and if you will lend me your 

 steel, I will light a pipe the while ; for that is commonly my 

 breakfast in a morning too. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 [Sccemtr Bap.] 



Pise. Why then, sir, to begin methodically, as a master in 

 any art should do ; and I will not deny but that I think 

 myself a master in this, I shall divide angling for trout or 

 grayling into these three ways; at the top, at the bottom, and 

 in the middle. Which three ways, though they are all of 

 them, as I shall hereafter endeavour to make it appear, in 

 some sort common to both those kinds of fish, yet are they 

 not so generally and absolutely so, but that they will neces- 

 sarily require a distinction, which, in due place, I will also 

 give you. 



That which we call angling at the top is with a fly ; at the 

 bottom, with a ground-bait; in the middle, with a minnow or 

 ground-bait. 



Angling at the top is of two sorts ; with a quick [live] fly, 

 or with an artificial fly. 



That we call angling at the bottom is also of two sorts ; 

 by the hand, or with a cork or float. 



That we call angling in the middle is also of two sorts ; 

 with a minnow for a trout, or with a ground-bait for a 

 grayling.* 



* Angling " in the middle," means trolling and spinning. Fishing with a 

 ground-bait for grayling is not angling at the middle, but at the bottom. 

 There is a method of fishing for grayling and other fish called " sinking and 

 drawing," which consists in part of fishing at the bottom, the middle, and 

 nearly at the top. 



