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more cadis : your hook should be bristled, that 

 is, when you whip on your hook, fasten a hog's 

 bristle under the silk, with the end standing out 

 about a straw's breadth, at the head of the hook, 

 from under the silk, and pointing towards the line, 

 by which means the head of the <:adis will be 

 kept close to the wings. Angle with u rod about 

 five yards long, and a line about three : cast the 

 wings and cadis up the stream, which will drive 

 it down under the water towards the lower part 

 of the hole; then draw it up the stream very 

 gently, though irregularly, at the same time shak- 

 ing your rod, and in a few casts you will be sure 

 to hook him, if there is one in the hole. You 

 may angle the same way with two brandlings. 

 If you use two cadis with the wings, run your 

 hook in at the head and out at the neck of the first, 

 and quite through the other from head to tail. 



The minnow is the most excellent of all uaits 

 for the trout; when you fish with one, chuse the 

 whitest, and middle-sized ones, these bein f j the 

 best; and you must place him on your hook hi 

 such a manner, that being drawn against the 

 stream he may turn round. The best way of 

 baiting with a minnow is thus : put your hook in 

 at his mouth, and out at his gill, drawing it 

 through about three inches : then put the hook 

 again into his mouth, and let the point and beard 

 come out at his tail ; then tie the h<K>k and his 

 tail about with a fine white thread, and let the body 

 of the minnow be almost straight on the hook; 

 then try if it turns well, which it cannot do too 

 fast. Angle with the point of your rod down the 

 stream, drawing the minnow up the stream by 

 little and little, ^near the top of the water. When 

 ilie trout sees the bait, he will come most fiercely 



