340 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II, 



That we call Angliny by hand, is of three sorts. 



The first with a line about half the length of the rod, a 

 good weighty plumb, and three hairs next the hook, which 

 we call a running-line, and with one large brandling, or a 

 dew-worm of a moderate size, or two small ones of the 

 first, or any other sort, proper for a Trout, of which my 

 father Walton has already given you the names, and 

 saved me a labour; or, indeed, almost any worm whatever ; 

 for if a Trout be in the humour to bite, it must be such a 

 worm as I never yet saw, that he will refuse ; and if you 

 fish with two, you are then to bait your hook thus : You 

 are first, to run the point of your hook in at the very head 

 of your first worm, and so down through his body till it 

 be past the knot, and then let it out, and strip the worm 

 above the arming, (that you may not bruise it with your 

 fingers) till you have put on the other, by running the 

 point of the hook in below the knot, and upwards through 

 his body towards his head, till it be but just cover'd with 

 the head, which being done, you are then to slip the first 

 worm down over the arming again, till the knots of both 

 worms meet together. 



The second way of angling by hand, and with a running 

 line, is with a line something longer than the former, and 

 with tackle made after this same manner. At the utmost 

 extremity of your line, where the hook is always placed in 

 all other ways of angling, you are to have a large pistol 

 or carabine bullet, into which the end of your line is to be 

 fastened with a peg or pin, even and close with the bullet ; 

 and, about half a foot above that, a branch of line, of two 

 or three hand fu Is long, or more for a swift stream, with a 

 hook at the end thereof, baited with some of the fore-named 

 worms, and, another half a foot above that, another arm'd 

 and baited after the same manner, but with another sort of 

 worm, without any lead at all above: by which means you 

 will always certainly find the true bottom in all depths; 



