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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 caddis turns, and then how to use them, first as 

 they be caddis, and after as they be flies, is an art, and an 

 art that every one that professes 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 caddises, 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 think, a more proper bait for 

 those very rivers than any other. I know not how, or of 

 what, this caddis receives life, or what coloured fly it turns 

 to ; but doubtless they are the death of many trouts ; and 

 this is one killing way : 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow caddis ; 

 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 

 caddis 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 wall 

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

 which I might easily take these, and consider the curiosity 



