of fishing. 



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The ycele spcare to take yeeles. 



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77/^ Otter Spcare. 



The Ydele speare is made with fiue thinne barres, cut in the sides with te'eth, to 

 holde that ye'ele that is \vithin them, and made with thicker and rounder plates 

 aboue toward the socket, which socket must be made strong, and therein put your 

 poale or staffe, which they vse in mudde, riuers, and brookes, to take a dish of 

 yeeles at pleasure : but it is euill to vse the ye'ele speare whereas there is Teech 

 [Tench], or Carpe, for they will commonly lie in the mudde when the water is beaten 

 or troubled, and thereby they may soone be striken and die thereof. 



The Otter speare is vsed when a man hunteth the Otter in riuers or brookes, 

 when as a man shall chance to see him vent aboue the water, then to throw the 

 speare at him, which speare hath a line tide at the ende, and a small boxe fastened 

 at the end of the line, that when ye'e haue stricken him, ye shall the sooner perceiue 

 him where he diueth in the riuer. Or if ye chaunce to finde him lying out of the 

 water, there to strike him, and let him go into the water, and so kill him. 



