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A Booke 



to your angling, and for the more vnderstanding how they vse them, here shall be 

 the figures. 



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There is also a line without corke to fish with, which they vse in some places in 

 sommer to angle for the Darce, the Bleke, and the Trowt, which they vse to cast 

 his line into the water, and still to drawe the line, so that he may alwaies haue a 

 sight thereof, and neuer let the hooke and bayte sinke to the bottome of the water 

 out of sight : but alwaies casting and drawing or moouing the bayte, and keeping it 

 tight, that as soone as the fish doe bite, he giueth a tutch, and so ke'epes his line tight 

 and lets the fish tyre herselfe on the hooke, and then takes her vp gently, this is the 

 chiefest way to have both line hooke and fish : for in snatching and striking hard 

 when the fish bites, you put your line in daunger, or tearing the mouth of the fish 

 and sometimes so loose him. 



There is also an other kinde of angling for the Pyke, which is called dragging, 

 your hooke beeing armed with wyer for sheering, when you would dragge for the 

 Pyke, you shall take a small Roch, or a Gogin, and with a needle of wood made 

 thinne and flatte : put it in at the gille, betwixt the skinne and the bodie of the 

 Roch, and so foorth at the taile, and drawe your armed wiar and hooke after, and 

 place your hooke close vnder his gill, and so dragge for him as ye doe for the 

 Darce. If it bee with a single hooke you shall put in your armed wiar at the mouth 

 of the Roch or Gogin, and it will serue well enough, as ye may here see by figure, 

 there is to drag with a hne Frogge, and tie the double hooke vnder his necke 

 and hippes. 



Ye may if ye lust, place your double hooke at the mouth of your fish, as is 



