over night ; so come in the morning betimes, plum your 

 ground, gage your line, bait your hook with a red knotted 

 worme ; but I hold a Menow better : put the hook in at the 

 back of the Menow, betwixt the fish and the skin, that the 

 Menow may swim up and down alive, being boyed up 

 with a Cork or Quill, that the Menow may have liberty to 

 swim me a foot off' the ground : there is no doubt of sport 

 with profit. 



I will shew, a little, my opinion of floating for scale fish 

 in the River or Pond : The feed brings the Fish together, 

 as the sheep to the Pen : There is nothing better in all 

 your Anglings, for feed, then Bloud and Grains ; I hold 

 it better then Paste: then plumming your ground, Angling 

 with fine Tackles, as single haire for halfe the Line next 

 the hook, round and small plumed, according to your float: 

 For the Bait, there is a small red worm, with a yellow tip 

 on his taile, is very good ; Brandlins, Gentles, Paste, or 

 Cadice, which we call Cod-bait, they lye in a gravelly 

 husk under stones in the River: these be the speciall Baits 

 for these kinde of Fish, 



One of my name was the best Trouler, for a Pike, in 

 this Realme : he laid a wager, that he would take a Pike 

 of four foot long, of Fish, within the space of one Moneth, 

 with his Trouling-Rod ; so he Trouled three weeks and 

 odde days, and took many great Pikes, nigh the length, but 

 did not reach the full length, till within the space of three 

 dayes of the time ; then he took one, and won the wager. 

 The manner of his Trouling was, with a Hazell Rod of 

 twelve foot long, with a Ring of Wyrc in the top of his 

 Rod, for his Line to runne tliorow : within two foot of the 

 bottorne* of the Rod there was a hole made, for to put in 

 a winde, to turne with a barrell, to gather up his Line, and 

 loose at his pleasure; this was his manner of Trouling: 

 But I will pawn rny credit, that I will shew a way, either 

 in Maior, Pond, or River, that shall take more Pikes than 

 any Trouler with his Rod : And thus it is. First, take 

 forked stick, a Line of twelve yards long wound upon it, 

 at the upper end, leave about a yard, either to tye a bunch 

 of Sags, or a Bladder, to Boy up the Fish, and to carry it 

 from the ground : the Bait must be a live Fish, either Dace, 



