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posture ; if for a grayling, you are then to fish farther from 

 the bottom, he being a fish that usually swims nearer to the 

 middle of the water, and lies always loose ; or, however, is 

 more apt to rise than a trout, and more inclined to rise than 

 to descend even to a ground-bait. 



With a grub or caddis you are to angle with the same 

 length of line, or if it be all out as long as your rod it is 

 not the worse, with never above one hair for two or three 

 lengths next the hook, and with the smallest cork or float, 

 and the least weight of plumb you can that will but sink, 

 and that the swiftness of your stream will allow ; which also 

 you may help, and avoid the violence of the current, by 

 angling in the returns of a stream, or the eddies betwixt 

 two streams, which also are the most likely places wherein 

 to kill a fish in a stream, either at the top or bottom. 



Of grubs for a grayling, the ash-grub, which is plump, 

 milk-white, bent round from head to tail, and exceeding 

 tender, with a red head, or the dock-worm, or grub of a pale 

 yellow, longer, lanker, and tougher than the other, with 

 rows of feet all down his belly, and a red head also, are the 

 best ; I say, for a grayling, because although a trout will 

 take both these, the ash-grub especially, yet he does not do 

 it so freely as the other, and I have usually taken ten gray- 

 lings for one trout with that bait ; though if a trout come, 

 I have observed that he is commonly a very good one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran, in which an ash- 

 grub commonly grows tougher, and will better endure bait- 

 ing ; though he is yet so tender, that it will be necessary 

 to warp in a piece of a stiff hair with your arming, leaving 

 it standing out about a straw-breadth at the head of your 

 hook, so as to keep the grub either from slipping totally off 



