20 A Booke 



Here follow etflleth^ hozv to make your hookes. 



If yee make your hookes of wier, it is the easier to cut the bord, with a hard 

 Steele knife and bend it (when ye have made the barbe and the point) with a paire 

 of plyars, or with an instrument, u-ith a bowed wier in the end, and when ye haue 

 bowed him cut the shanke of what length ye thinke good, then batter him at the 

 end, and smooth it with your file, and it done, then heate him red in the fire, and 

 quenche him in colde water, and it wilbe hard againe, if it be a Steele needle ye 

 must holde it in the fire, till it be red hot, or ouer a candel, and then let it coole ot 

 himselfe, and so it wilbe soft as wier, and to haue the knowledge of this instru- 

 ments, and also how much your hookes and lines shalbe for euerie fish, here may 

 ye sde the figures of your instruments and hookes. 



PIKE HOOKE, THE PROCH. 



Now when ye haue made thus your hookes of al sorts, then must yee set them 

 to your lines, according in greatnes and strength, for euery fishe in this wise. Ye 

 shall take small red silke, for a great hooke double, but twiste it not, and for small 

 hookes, let it be single, and therewith fret your hookes in doubHng your lines end, 

 and your silke or haire on the inside of your double line, then fret or whippe it so 

 faire as yee shall se'e good, then next your hooke at the bought put throw your silke 

 or haire in going round about the hooke thre'e times, then plucke first your silke 

 or haire hard downe, and then your line, so cut it off harde by the end of your 

 booke (in setting your line on the inside o! your hooke,[)] and so it is done. 



