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PlSC. Angling in the middle, then, for a trout or grayling, 

 is of two sorts : with a penk or minnow for a trout ; or with 

 a worm, grub, or caddis for a grayling. 



For the first. It is with a minnow, half a foot or a foot 

 within the superficies of the water. And as to the rest that 

 concerns this sort of angling, I shall wholly refer you to 

 Mr. Walton's directions, who is undoubtedly the best angler 

 with a minnow in England ; only, in plain truth, I do not 

 approve of those baits he keeps in salt, unless where the 

 living ones are not possibly to be had (though I know he 

 frequently kills with them, and, peradventure, more than 

 with any other ; nay, I have see him refuse a living one for 

 one of them), and much less of his artificial one ; for though 

 we do it with a counterfeit fly, methinks it should hardly be 



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