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The rich, the poor, the sick, and the healthy, hare tasted of the 

 labour of my hands. 



In the first nine months in the year 1 751, I took, in the counties of 

 Pembroke and Carmarthen, above a thousand Trouts : and though I 

 have taken Trouts in every month in the year since, yet I could not, 

 in any one year, reach that number. Perhaps I have done it before 

 1751 ; but I did not then keep an account all the year round, only 

 noted those days in which I had diversion more than common. 



>". B. There were some Pike and Chub, Eel and Flounder taken, 

 which are not noted in the above account.* 



No. VI. 



Additional Rules and Cautxw. 



1. WHEX you have hooked a fish, never suffer him to run out with 

 the line ; but keep your rod bent, and as near perpendicular as yon 

 can ; by this method the top plies to every pull he makes, and you 

 prevent the straining of your line for the same reason. 



Never raise a large fish out of the water by taking the hair to 

 which your hook is fastened, or indeed any part of the line, into your 

 hand; but either put a landing- net under him, or, for want of that, 

 your hat: you may, indeed, in fly-fishing, lay hold of your line to 

 draw a fish'to you, but this must be done with caution. 



3. Your silk for whipping hooks and other fine work must be very 

 small ; use it double, and wax it, and indeed any other kind of binding, 

 with shoemaker's wax, which of all wax is the toughest, and holds 

 best : if your wax is too stiff, temper it with tallow. 



4. If for strong fishing yoa use grass, which, when you can get it 

 fine, is to be preferred to gut, remember always to soak it about an 

 hour in water before you use it ; this will make it tough, and prevent 

 its kinking. 



5. Whenever you begin fishing, wet the ends of the joints of four 

 rod, which, as it makes them swell, will prevent their loosening. And, 



6. If you happen with rain or otherwise to wet your rod, so that 

 you cannot pull the joints asunder, turn the ferule a tew times round 

 in the flame of a candle, and they will easily separate. 



7. Before you fix the loop of "bristle to your hook in order to make 

 it fly, to prevent its drawing, be sure to singe the ends of it in the 

 flame of a candle ; do the same by the hair to which at any time you 

 whip a hook. 



8. Make flies in warm weather only, for, in cold, your waxed silk 

 will not draw. 



9. In rainy weather, or when the season for fishing is over, repair 

 whatever damage your tackle has sustained. 



If I had the honour of an acquaintance with this keen and lrtsriia || nil i ill. I 

 Might possibly at times hare checked him in the ardour of his pursuit, by n iiiiaitint. ! 



if itivr rrrrTlim iMnrta. " T*i s^iil >." f . rr.ilii ij, 1. 1 ill ~ TkcpteMowaf 



angling cimirti m*m much in the number of fish we catch, as in the aercveef oarawt. 



the gratification of our hopes, and the reward of our skill and ingenuity. Were it paMfUe 

 for an angler to be rare of every east of his fly, so that for lix hours together ton book 

 should never come home without a (Ufa at it, 3rgU"g would b no more a 

 than the *awing of itooe or the pumping of water. 



