PALMER-FLY, &C. 29 



PALMER-FLY, PALMER-WORM, WOOL-BED, OR 

 CANKERS, 



Found in herbs, plants, and trees, where they are 

 bred, if not a perfect caterpillar, yet undoubtedly 

 a species thereof : they gain the name of wool- 

 beds from their outward parts being woolly. 

 These and the May-fly are the foundation of fly- 

 angling. 



These are good baits either for trout, chub, 

 grayling-, roach, or dace. 



BOB 5. 



Found in sandy or mellow ground, and got by 

 following the plough in Autumn, are worms as 

 big as two maggots, have red heads, and their bo- 

 dies full of soft guts. Put them in a tub with 

 some of the mould that you gather them in, keep 

 them in a warm place, and they are an excellent 

 bait from the first of November till the middle of 

 April. You may boil them the morning you in- 

 tend angling, in milk and water, for two minutes, 

 which will make them tough ; and put them in a 

 box where gum-ivy has been rubbed. 



These are choice baits from the beginning of 

 November until after the middle of April, for 

 chub, roach, dace, salmon-smelts, trout, bream A 

 tench, and carp. 



COW-TURD-BOB OR CLAP-BAIT, 



Found under a cow-turd from the beginning of 

 May to Michaelmas : it is bigger than a gentle, 

 but very like one : it is best kept in the same 

 earth you find it in. 



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