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of fishing we call DAPING, DABBING, or DIBBINO; 

 wherein you are always to have your line flying before 

 you up or down the river, as the wind serves, and to 

 angle as near as you can to the bank of the same side 

 whereon you stand, though where you see a tish rise near 

 you, you may guide your quick fly over him, whether in 

 tin- middle, or on the contrary side ; and if you are pretty 

 well out of sight, either by kneeling, or the interposition 

 of a bank or bush, you may almost be sure to raise, and 

 take him too, if it be presently done ; the fish will, other- 

 wise, peradventure be removed to some other place, if it 

 be in the still deeps, where he is always in motion, and 

 roving up and down to look for prey, though, in a stream, 

 you may always almost, especially if there be a 

 stone near, find him in the same place. Your line ought 

 in this case to be three good hairs next the hook ; both 

 by reason you are, in this kind of angling, to expect 'the 

 biggest fish, and also that, wanting length to give him 

 line after he is struck, you must be forced to tug for it: 

 to which I will also add, that not an inch of your line 

 being to be suffered to touch the water in dibbing, it may 

 be allowed to be the stronger. I should now give you a 

 description of those flies, their shape and colour ; and, 

 then, give you an account of their breeding; and withal, 

 shew you how to keep and use them : but shall defer 

 them to their proper place and season. 



Viat. In earnest, Sir, you discourse very rationally 

 of this affair, and I am glad to find myself mistaken in 

 you ; for, in plain truth, I did not expect so much from 

 you. 



Pise. Nay, Sir, 1 can tell you a great deal more than 

 this : and will conceal nothing from you. But 1 must 

 now to the second way of Angling at the top ; which is 



(1) SM, in Chap. VII. May, Art. 11. directions how to bait with the Green- 

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