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tail, and placed him after such a manner on your hook 

 as he is like to turn, then, sew up his mouth to your line, 

 and he is like to turn quick, and tempt any Trout : but 

 if he does not turn quick, then turn his tail, a little more 

 or less, towards the inner part, or towards the side of the 

 hook; or put the Minnow or Sticklebag a little more 

 crooked or more straight on your hook, until it will turn 

 both true and fast : and then doubt not but to tempt any 

 great Trout that lies in a swift stream. 1 And the Loach 

 that I told you of will do the like: no bait is more tempt- 

 ing, provided the Loach be not too big. 



And now, scholar, with the help of this fine morning, 

 and your patient attention, I have said all that my pre- 

 sent memory will afford me, concerning most of the 

 several fish that are usually fished for in fresh waters. 



Ven. But, master, you have by your former civility 

 made me hope that you will make good your promise, 

 and say something of the several rivers that be of most 

 note in this nation; and also of fish-ponds, and the 

 ordering of them: and do it I pray, good master; for I 

 love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing; the 

 time spent in such discourse passes away very pleasantly. 



(1) The Minnow, if used in this manner, is so tempting a bait, that few fish 

 are able to resist it. The present Enrl of told me, that in ihe month 



of June last, at Kimptou IIoo, near Wellwyn, in Hertfordshire, he caught (with 

 a Minnow) a Rud, a fish described in page I'l , which, insomuch as the Hud is 

 not reckoned, nor does the situation of hit teeth, which are in his throat, be- 

 speak him to be a fish of prey, is a fact more extraordinary thau that related 

 by Sir George Hastings, in Chap. IV. of a Fordidgt Trout (of which kind of 

 fish none had ever been known to be taken with an angle), which he caught, 

 and supposed it bit for wantonness. 



