12 A Booke 



the Pyke and the goose. An other maner of taking the Pyke there is : ye shall take 

 a liue Frogge, and put him on your hooke at the necke betvve'ene the skinne and the 

 bodie on the backe part, and put a flote as is aforesaide, then cast it in a riuer or 

 pound, where ye thinke the Pyke haunteth, and ye shall soone take him : and the 

 best laying or angling for him, is towardes night. Also another maner is to take 

 him: take the same baite aforesaide, and put it into a safetida, and then cast 

 it in the water with a long line and a hooke, and ye shall not fayle of him 

 soone after. 



An other baite for him : Take Boares grease a safetida, neppe, so boile alto 

 gether, then take a Roch, or other small fish, and drie it in your bosome : and take 

 and annoint him with the foresaide oyntment, and then put him on your hooke, and 

 cast it into the water, and you shall speede : also some doe vse to dragge for the 

 Pyke with a bleke, Roch, or Gogin, in drawing it vp and downe the water, some- 

 times aboue, and sometimes beneath, for so he will soonest come, if he see it, and 

 some anglers do put the hooke in at his gill, and out at his mouth, and so drawes 

 the bayte, as though he did flie from the Pyke, which is taken for the better way to 

 make him more eger to take it. 



The Loch, and the Millers thumbe. 



The Loch and the cull, or Miller's thumbe, they are good and wholesome fish, 

 they feede at the bottome, and lye most part in weedes, rootes, and holes in bankes, 

 and to angle for them, ye must lay to the bottome, they do seldom byte at an hooke, 

 but the red worme is their chiefest bayte that I do knowe for them, for their foode 

 is commonly at the bottome, in sucking such as lies on the bottome of the 

 water. 



TJie maiuicr of feeding and preserving your 

 qnicke baites. 



Now I will tell you how you shall feepe [feede] and ke'ede [keepe] your quicke 

 baites, which is, you shal feede and ke'epe them al in general, but every maner by 



