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fish, you will remember, are not caught by 

 a hook, but only hanging to *he .wtorrns and 

 silk : I have taken seven or eight large Eels 

 at a time this way. 



Very large Eels are caught by baiting 

 night-hooks with small Roach or Minnows; 

 and let the hooks lie in the mouth of the 

 fish. Some persons near the Eel-haunts 

 sink a bottle of hay, loosely bound, and 

 stuffed with fowls' guts, and liver cut in long 

 shreds, over night, and corning early next 

 morning, and drawing it up hastily, by the 

 rope fastened to the band, find large Eels 

 bedded in it for the sake of the prey : but 

 this may be better done with a bundle of 

 brushwood, out of which, upon pulling them 

 up, they cannot so easily get. 



I cannot dismiss this subject without tak- 

 ing notice, that on most rivers of any con- 

 sequence in England, there are weirs built 

 on the different royalties, wherein very large 

 baskets, usually called bucks, are laid close 

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