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in particular, who will bite at him as at a penk, and better, 

 if your hook be rightly baited with him ; for he may be so 

 baited as, his tail turning like the sail of a windmill, will 

 make him turn more quick than any penk or minnow can. 

 For note, that the nimble turning of that, or the minnow, is 

 the perfection of minnow fishing. To which end, if you put 

 your hook into his mouth, and out at his tail, and then, 

 having first tied him with white thread a little above his 

 tail, and placed him after such a manner on your hook as 

 he is like to turn, then sew up his mouth to your line, and 

 he is like to turn quick, and tempt any trout ; but if he do 

 not turn quick, then turn his tail a little more or less towards 

 the inner part, or towards the side of the hook, or put the 

 minnow or sticklebag a little more crooked or more strait 

 on your hook, until it will turn both true and fast, and then 

 doubt not but to tempt any great trout that lies in a swift 

 stream. And the loach that I told you of will do the like: 

 no bait is more tempting, provided the loach be not too big. 



And now, scholar, with the help of this fine morning, and 

 your patient attention, I have said all that my present 

 memory will afford me, concerning most of the several fish 

 that are usually fished for in fresh waters. 



VEN. But, master, you have, by your former civility, made 

 me hope that you will make good your promise, and say 

 something of the several rivers that be of most note in this 

 nation ; and also of fish-ponds, and the ordering of them ; 

 and do it, I pray, good master, for I love any discourse of 

 rivers, and fish, and fishing: the time spent in such discourse 

 passes away very pleasantly, 





