of Ji shin. 





the baite that breedeth betweene the barke and the tree of the Oke : in July, the 

 baite that bre'edeth on the Fearne leafe, and the great red worme, and nippe of 

 his head, and put it on your hooke with the Codworme before : in August the 

 red worme and the docke worme, and all the yeare after vse chiefly the 

 red worme. 



For the Barbyll. 



The Barbell is a subtill and straunge fish to take, and very daintie to take his 

 baite : these are commonly his baytes, in March and in Aprill ye shall angle to him 

 with fresh che'ese laide on a borde, and so eut [cut] it in small pe'eces square, the 

 length of your hooke : then take a candle and burne it or smeare it on the end at 

 the point of your hooke till it look yelow : then binde it on your hooke with Fletchers 

 silke, and make it rough like a welbede" worme, and this is verie good for all somer 

 season : but in May and June ye shall take the Hawthorne worme, and the great 

 redde worme before : in July the red worme for a chcefe baite, and the Hawthorne 

 worme together, and also the worme that breedeth in the water dog [? dock] leafe, 

 and the yong Hornet worme together : in August and for all the yeare, take the 

 tallow of a sheepe and soft cheese of each alike, and grinde or scrape them well 

 and small together, till it waxe fine and tough, then put a little wheate flower, and 

 make it into little pellets, and this is a good baite to angle at the bottom, and see 

 that it doe sinke alone in the water, or els it is not good for this purpose. 



The Carpe. 



The Carpe also is a straunge and daintie fish to take, his baites are not well 

 knowne, for he hath not long be'ene in this realme. The first bringer of them 

 into England (as I have beene credibly enformed) was maister Mascoll of Plumsted 

 in Sussex, who also brought first the planting of the Pippin in England : but now 

 many places are replenished with Carpes, both in poundes and riuers, and because 

 not knowing well his che'efe baites in each moneth, I will write the lesse of him, 

 he is a straunge fish in the water, and very straunge to byte, but at certaine times to 



