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lengths next the hook, and with the smallest cork or 

 float, and the least weight of plumb you can that will but 

 sink, and that the swiftness of your stream will allow ; 

 which also you may help, and avoid the violence of the 

 current, by angling in the returns of a stream, or the 

 eddies betwixt two streams, which also are the most likely 

 places wherein to kill a fish in a stream, either at the top 

 or bottom. 



Of Grubs for a Grayling, the ash-grub, which is plump, 

 milk-white, bent round from head to tail, and exceeding 

 tender, with a red head, or the dock-worm, or grub of a 

 pale yellow, longer, lanker, and tougher than the other, 

 with rows of feet all down his belly, and a red head also, 

 are the best ; I say for a Grayling, because although a 

 Trout will take both these, the ash-grub especially, yet 

 he does not do it so freely as the other, and I have usually 

 taken ten Graylings for one Trout with that bait; though 

 if a Trout come, I have observed that he is commonly a 

 very good one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran, in which an ash- 

 grub commonly grows tougher, and will better endure 

 baiting; though he is yet so tender, that it will be neces- 

 sary to warp in a piece of a stiff hair with your arming, 

 leaving it standing out about a straw-breadth at the head 

 of your hook, so as to keep the grub either from slipping 

 totally off when baited, or at least down to the point of 

 the hook, by which means your arming will be left wholly 

 naked and bare, which is neither so sightly, nor so likely 

 to be taken; though to help that (which will however 

 very oft fall out) I always arm the hook I design for this 

 bait with the whitest horse-hair 1 can choose; which, 

 itself, will resemble and shine like that bait, and conse- 

 quently will do more good, or less harm, than an arming 

 of any other colour. These grubs are to be baited thus: 

 the hook is to be put in under the head or chaps of the 



