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The Ycele. 



The Yeele is a greedie fish, and hee byteth alwayes at the bottome, ye shall see 

 commonly holes in the bottom of the water, if ye put in your hooke there, yee shall 

 soone haue him byte if he be there, and he will holde very harde a long time, ye 

 must therefore holde your line stiffe, and hee will yeeld at length if ye plucke and 

 striue with him hastely ye are like to loose him. And when he lyeth in a hole, it 

 shall be best for to angle to him with your proch hooke, as is shewed after, but 

 when you angle to the bottome for the Gogin, ye shall oft times take the Yeele 

 when that he runneth abroad, as often they will specially in the euening. The great 

 red worme is the chiefest bayte for him, or a Menow, or any peece of gutte, or 

 such like. 



Tlie Fyke. 



The Pyke is a common deuourer of most fish, where he cometh for to take him 

 ye shall doe thus. Take a codling hooke, well armed with wyer, then take a small 

 Roch or Gogin, or else a Frogge a line, or a fresh Hearing, and put through your 

 armed wyer with your hooke on the end, and let your hooke rest in the mouth of 

 your bayte, and out of the tayle thereof, and downe by the ridge or side of the fresh 

 Hearing, and then put your line thereto, and drawe it vp and downe the water or 

 poole, and if he see it, hee will take it in haste, let him go with it a while, and then 

 strike and holde, and so tyre him in the water. Some doe put the hooke in at the 

 che'eke of the bayte, and foorth at the tayle : but when ye will lay your lyne, then 

 must ye put a plummet of leade vpon your line, a yarde from your hooke, and a 

 flote in the middest betwe'ene the leade and your bayte, that it sinke not to the 

 bottome, for then the yeeles will eat yovur baite away. Ye may lay in your baites 

 without flots, and often ye may speede of pykes : and if you will see a good sport in 

 a pond where as there is store of Pykes, you shall put in a Goose, and put a frogge 

 a Hue on a hooke, and tye it with a strong pockthre'ed (to the Goose foote) a yeard 

 long or more, and in short space ye shall see good snatching and tugging betweene 



