342 THfc COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. 



and very true and finely made, which, with a skilful hand, 

 will do wonders, and in a clear stream is undoubtedly the 

 best way of angling for a Trout or Grayling with a worm, 

 by many degrees, that any man can make choice of, and 

 of most ease and delight to the angler. To which let me 

 add, that if the Angler be of a constitution that will suffer 

 him to wade, and will slip into the tail of a shallow stream, 

 to the calf of the leg or the knee, and so keep off the bank, 

 he shall almost take what fish he pleases. 



The second way of angling at the bottom is with a 

 Cork or Flout. And that is also of two sorts ; with a 

 worm, or with a grub or cadis. 



With a Worm, you are to ha?e your line within a foot, 

 or a foot and a half, as long as your rod ; in a dark water 

 with two, or if you will with three, but in a clear water 

 never with above one hair next the hook, and two or three 

 for four or five lengths above it ; and a worm of what size 

 you please : your plumbs fitted to your cork, your cork to 

 the condition of the river (that is, to the swiftness or 

 slowness of it,) and both, when the water is very clear, 

 as fine as you can ; and then you are never to bait with 

 above one of the lesser sort of brandlings ; or if they are 

 very little ones indeed, you may then bait with two, after 

 the manner before directed. 



When you angle for a Trout, you are to do it as deep, 

 that is, as near the bottom as you can, provided your bait 

 do not drag, or if it do, a Trout will sometimes take it in 

 that posture. If for a Grayling, you are then to fish further 

 from the bottom ; he being a fish that usually swims nearer 

 to the middle of the water, and lies always loose ; or, how- 

 ever, is more apt to rise than a Trout, and more inclined 

 to rise than to descend even to a ground-bait. 



With a Grub or Cadis, you are to angle with the same 

 length of line, or if it be all out as long as your rod 'tis 

 not the worse, with never above one hair, for two or three 



