406 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



you have any wind to carry it from .you. And this way of 

 fishing we call daping, dabbing, or dibbing ; wherein you 

 are always to have your line flying before you up or down 

 the river, as the wind serves, and to angle as near as you 

 can to the bank of the same side whereon you stand, though 

 where you see a fish rise near you, you may guide your 

 quick fly over him, whether in the middle or on the contrary 

 side ; and if you are pretty well out of sight, either by 

 kneeling or the interposition of a bank or bush, you may 

 almost be sure to raise, and take him too, if it be presently 

 done : the fish will otherwise, peradventure, be removed to 

 some other place, if it be in the still deeps, where he is 

 always in motion, and roving up and down to look for prey, 

 though, in a stream, you may always almost, especially if 

 there be a good stone near, find him in the same place. 

 Your line ought in this case to be three good hairs next the 

 hook, both by reason you are in this kind of angling to 

 expect the biggest fish, and also that wanting length to 

 give him line after he is struck, you must ' be forced to tug 

 for it ; to which I will also add, that not an inch of your 

 line being to be suffered to touch the water in dibbing, it 

 may be allowed to be the stronger. I should now give you 

 a description of those flies, their shape and colour, and then 

 give you an account of their breeding, and withal shew you 

 how to keep and use them ; but shall defer them to their 

 proper place and season. 



VIAT. In earnest, Sir, you discourse very rationally of 

 this affair, and I am glad to find myself mistaken in you ; 

 for in truth I did not expect so much from you. 



PlSC. Nay, Sir, I can tell you a great deal more than this, 

 and will conceal nothing from you. But I must now come 



