of fishing. 



Of twelue lets in takmg fish. 



Ye shall here vnderstand there be twelue manner of impediments or lets which 

 causeth a man to take no fish, without other cunning that may happe by casualitie. 

 The first is if your harnesse or lynes be not fitly made : the second is, if your 

 baites be not good nor fine : the third is, when that ye angle not in the byting 

 time : the fourth is, if that your fish be fearefuU of the sight of man : the fift is, if 

 the water be very thicke, white or redde by any floud late falen : the sixt is, if the 

 fish for colde doe not stirre abroade : the seuenth is, if the wether then be too 

 hote : the eight is, if it be in rainy wether : the nynth is, if then haile or snow do 

 fall : the tenth is, if it be in any tempest : the eleuenth is, if then it be a great 

 winde : tlie twelfth is, if the winde blow from the East, for that is worst, and 

 commonly neither winter nor summer the fish will then byte : the West and South 

 windes be good, but the South winde best of all. 



To take the Salmon. 



The Salmon is a gentle fish, but he is cumbrous to take : for commonly he is 

 but in dtfepe places of great riuers, and commonly in the middest of the riuer : he 

 is in season from March vnto Michaelmasse, and ye shall angle to him with a red 

 worme, from the beginning to the ending, and with the bobbe worme that bre'edeth 

 in the dughill : also there is a soueraigne baite that brdedeth on the water docke : 

 the Salmon byteth not at the ground but at the flote or aboue : ye may also take 

 him with the dubbe worm at such time when he leapeth, but it hath seldom scene, 

 and ye shall take him in like manner as ye dee take the Trout, or Grayling, or 

 the Dace. 



For the Tronte. 



The Troute is in season from March vnto Michaelmasse, he vseth commonly a 

 cleane grauelly ground, and in a streame : ye may angle to him at all times with 

 a ground lyne, lying or running, sauing in the leaping time, then with the dubbe 



