60 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



fore directed, only cutting away one of the 

 fins at the gills^ and another at the vent on 

 the contrary side, and keeping the points of 

 the double hook towards his eyes when it is 

 drawn close to his mouth : angle for them 

 this way in deep strong water, near to 

 weeds, bull-rushes, water-docks, hollow 

 banks, stumps of trees, &c. cast your bait 

 across the water, and work it up and down 

 in such places as you judge proper, keeping 

 it in continual motion, by sometimes letting 

 it sink a considerable depth, and at other 

 times raising it gradually : you need not 

 make more than three or four trials in a 

 place, for if a Pike be there he w r ill seize the 

 bait within that time if he intends taking it 

 at all ; when he has got it, give him line 

 and he will run to his hold to swallow it: 

 in a short time afterwards you may use your 

 rod and line sharp, (as before observed) if 

 that be not the case let him alone for five or six 

 minutes from the time that he first made off, 

 then strike and manage with discretion, and 

 he is your own : but, if after he has run with 



