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and more lively, and continue so longer upon your hook. 

 And they may be kept longer by keeping them cool, and 

 in fresh moss ; and some advise to put camphor into it. 1 



Note also, that many use to fish for a salmon with a 

 ring of wire on the top of their rod, through which the line 

 may run to as great a length as is needful, when he is 

 hooked. And to that end, some use a wheel about the 

 middle of their rod, or near their hand, which is to be 

 observed better by seeing one of them than by a large 

 demonstration of words. 



And now I shall tell you that which may be called a 

 secret. I have been a-fishing with old Oliver Henley, now 

 with God, a noted fisher both for Trout and Salmon ; and 

 have observed, that he would usually take three or four 

 worms out of his bag, and put them into a little box in 

 his pocket, where he would usually let them continue half 

 an hour or more, before he would bait his hook with them. 

 I have asked him his reason, and he has replied, "He did 

 but pick the best out to be in readiness against he baited 

 "his hook the next time :" but he has been observed, both 

 by others and myself, to catch more fish than I, or any 

 other body that has ever gone a-fishing with him could 

 do, and especially Salmons. And I have been told lately, 

 by one of his most intimate and secret friends, that the 

 box in which he put those worms was anointed with a 

 drop, or two or three, of the oil of ivy-berries, made by 

 expression or infusion ; and told, that by the worms re- 

 maining in that box an hour, or a like time, they had 



(I) Baits for Salmon arc : lob-worms, for the ground; smaller worms aud bobs, 

 cad bait, and, indeed, most of the baits taken by the trout, at the top of the 

 water. And as to flies, remember to make them of the most gaudy colours, and 

 very lart;e. There is a fly called the horse-leech fly, which he is vpry fond of: 

 they are of various colours, have great heads, large bodies, very long tills, and 

 two (and some have three) pairs of wings, placed behind each other : in imitat- 

 ing tins fly, behind each pair of wings, whip the body about with gold or silver 

 twist, or both; and do the same by the head. Fish with it at length, as for 

 Trout and Grayling. If yon dib, do it with two or three butterflies of different 

 colours, or with some of the most glaring small flies you can find. 



