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ceed three or four haires ; but if 

 you can attain to Angle with one 

 haire, you will have more rifes, 

 and catch more fifh. Now you 

 muft bee lure not to cumber your- 

 felfe with too long a Line, as moil 

 do : and before you begin to an- 

 gle, cafttohave the wind on your 

 back, and the Sun (if it (bines) to 

 be before you, and to fifli down 

 the ftreame) and carry the point 

 or top of the Rod downeward; 

 by which meanes the fhadow of 

 your felfe, and Rod too will be the 

 leaft offenfive to the Fifh, for the 

 fight of any (hadow amazes the 

 fifh , and fpoiles your fport, of 

 which you muft take a great 

 care. 



In the middle of March (till 

 v^hich time a man fhould not in 

 honeftie catch a Trout] or in A- 

 prilyif the weather be dark,or a lit- 

 tle windy, or cloudie,the beft fifhing 



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