2 A A Booke 



so stiffe, ye shall breake your line, or teare his mouth : there holde hard still, and 

 at length he will ye'elde, and come foorth. And where ye shall see any hole in the 

 bottome of a brooke or riuer, there is Uke to lie an yeele, put there in your proch, 

 and he will soone byte if he be there. Thus much for the order of the proch hooke 

 to take the Yeele. 



The manner of laying of hookes. 



There is also a kind of laying of hookes armed for pikes, in pooles and riuers 

 ye shall bayte them as ye bayte the hooke in dragging for the Pyke : and here is to 

 be noted of two raaner of layings of hookes, the one way is to the bottome of the 

 water without corke, and the other is with the flote or corke, to cast in your 

 bayted hooke without a corke, it will sinke to the bottome, and then the Ydele will 

 haue it as soon as the Pyke : and it he cannot swallow it, he will byte away the 

 baite by little and httle : therefore to lay from the bottome is best for the Pyke, ye 

 shal cast your bayted hooke and line with a corke, of what depth ye lust, for so it 

 will not sinke to the bottome. 



Also to lay for the ye'eles, ye shall baite your hookes with menowes, gogins, or 

 loches, great wormes and such like. And to sticke pooles in the bankes, with lines 

 at the endes so that your baites may lie on the bottome of the water, for there the 

 ye'ele will soonest take it, but lay not nigh roots of trees or such, for they will 

 wrappe them so, ye shall neuer come by thein. 



Also let your lines be of good great packthrdeke[de], sticking the saide poles or 

 pinnes of wood in the bankes, and your lines to be of two or three fatham, some 

 more, some lesse : and for your proch hooke to baite him with the great worme, or 

 the menowe is best, or with a Loch, or small Gogin, so if a great ye'ele come, he 

 will swallowe it hole. Thus much for laying of hookes for the Pyke and Yeele. 



Also to take yeeles in winter, some haue vsed to lay in pondes or running 

 waters, faggots of hay, with a bough of Willow put in the middest, and bayted with 

 some garbage of foule or beastes, bound with two bondes, and to plucke it vp (after 

 it hath laine two or three daies) with hooke or corde, and you shall haue y^eles 



