206 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PAftT I. 



Ptsc. Well, scholar, and I shall be then right glad to 

 hear them. And I will, as we walk, tell you whatsoever 

 comes in my mind, that I think may be worth your hear- 

 ing. You may make another choice bait thus: take a 

 handful or two of the best and biggest wheat you can get ; 

 boil it in a little milk, like as frumity is boiled ; boil it so 

 till it be soft; and then fry it, very leisurely, with honey, 

 and a little beaten saffron dissolved in milk: and you' 

 will find this a choice bait, and good, I think, for any 

 fish, especially for Roach, Dace, Chub, or Grayling : I 

 know not but that it may be as good for a river Carp, 

 and especially if the ground be a little baited with it. 



And you may also note, that the SPAWN of mostfsh is 

 a very tempting bait, being a little hardened on a warm 

 tile, and cut into fit pieces. 1 Nay, mulberries, and those 

 blackberries which grow upon briars, be ,good baits for 

 Chubs or Carps: with these many have been taken in 

 ponds, and in some rivers where such trees have grown 

 near the water, and the fruits customarily dropt into it. 

 And there be a hundred other baits, more than can be 

 well named, which, by constant baiting the water, will 

 become a tempting bait for any fish in it. 



You are also to know, that there be divers kinds of 

 CADIS, or Case-worms, that are to be found in this nation, 

 in several distinct counties, and in several little brooks 

 that relate to bigger rivers ; as namely, one cadis called a 

 piper, whose husk or case is a piece of reed about an 

 inch long, or longer, and as big about as the compass of 

 a two-pence. These worms being kept three or four 

 days in a woollen bag, with sand at the bottom of it, and 

 the bag wet once a day, will in three or four days turn to 

 be yellow ; and these be a choice bait for the Chub or Cha- 

 vender, or indeed for any great fish, for it is a large bait. 



(I) See the Note in page 02. 



