182 THE DllIFFIELD ANGLER. 



have so much dexterity as to do it with ft 

 single hair for two links next your hook, you 

 will certainly catch three Trout for one 

 against any that angle with gut next the 

 hook ; and though you may now and then 

 lose a great fish by his breaking your line, 

 yet if you had not been so small tackled, ten 

 to one he had ever bit, and a number of 

 bites will compensate the loss ; you may fish 

 with less hazard at the bottom than at the 

 op with fine tackle, because a Trout shoots 

 at the fly with a rapid agility at your bait, 

 and from you when he hath taken it, with his 

 head generally downwards ; but at the ground, 

 or mid-water, he takes the bait gently, and 

 glides away more leisurely. 



Fish take all sorts of baits more eagerly 

 and freely, and with the least suspicion, when 

 you present them in such order and manner 

 as nature affords, and they are used to take 

 them. 



Some are peculiar to certain countries 



