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TERMS USED BY ANGLERS EXPLAINED. 



/^/er/:, a knot in a hair or link. 



tied, hairs bed well when lhi>v twist kindly. 



Bcddjng, the body of ;m artificial. fly. 



Break , a knot in the joint of a rod. 



Chine a salmon, cut him up. 



Cock, a iioat cocks when it swims perpend icu- 

 Jar in the war. 



Drag, an instrument to disentangle the line, 



fin a chub, cut him np. 



I'rush a chnb 9 dress him. 



Gildard, the link of a line. 



Gobbet a trout, cut him up. 



Grabble, fishing on the grabble is when the 

 line is sunk with a running plummet fast to the 

 bottom, so that the hook-link plays in the water. 



Hang ajish, hook him. 



Kink 9 a line kinks in trowling, when it is 

 twisted between the top of the rod and the ring. 



Leash offish, three. 



Pouch, a pike pouches when he swallows the 

 bait. 



Prime, fish are said to prime when they leap 

 out of the water. 



Shoal, any great number of fish together. 



Solay a bream, cut him up. 



Splat e a pike, cut him up. 



Thrashy any thing which swims down t he- 

 water. 



Trounchtou an eel, cut him up. 



Tusk a barbel, cut him up. 



Veer your line, let it oft' the real after striking, 

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