34 BEST'S ART OF AXGLING. 



bottle. These are a deadly bait for roach, dace, 

 and chub : you must angle with them under wa- 

 ter, a hand's breadth from the bottom. The young 

 brood of wasps, hornets, and humble-bees, are 

 likewise very good : also minnows, loaches, sharp- 

 lings, and bull-heads. Snails, black and white : 

 the black one's bellies slit to show the white. 

 Likewise cherries, blackberries, cheese kept a day 

 or two in wet rags, which makes it tough, or 

 steeped in a little honey. Also salmon-spawn, 

 which must be boiled till it is hard enough to 

 stick on the hook ; and if you wish to preserve 

 it, sprinkle a little salt over it, and get a glazed 

 earthen pot, and put a layer of wool at the bot- 

 tom of it, and then a little salmon spawn upon 

 that ; then wool again, and then spawn, and so 

 proceed alternately till the pot is filled : it is a 

 most destructive bait in the winter and spring, es- 

 pecially if angled with where salmon are known> 

 to spawn ; for there every kind of fish resort in 

 order to devour it. 



CHAP. IV. 



Of natural Fig-fishing ^ with a Description of Flie& 

 generally used^ and a choice Collection of Rules 

 and Hints to be observed in the Art of Angling. 



NATURAL fly-fishing, which comes under 

 the heads of dibbling, daping, and dab- 

 bing, is a method with which the largest fish are 

 taken, and requires a deal of nicety and circum- 

 spection. The general rule in this way of angling.; 



