or Gudgin, or Roach, or a small Trout : the forked stick 

 must have a slit in the one side of the fork to put in the 

 Line, that you may set your live Fish to swim me at a gage, 

 that when the Pike taketh the Bait, he may have the full 

 liberty of the Line for his feed. 



You may turne these loose, either in Pond or River : 

 in the Pond with the windeallday long, the more the bet- 

 ter : at night set some small weight, as may stay the Boy, 

 as a Ship lyeth at Anchor, till the Fish taketh. For the 

 River, you must turn all loose with the streame ; two or 

 three be sufficient to shew pleasure, gaged at such a depth 

 as they will go currant downe the River ; there is no doubt 

 of sport, if there be Pikes : for the hooks, they must be 

 doubled hooks, the shanks should be somewhat shorter than 

 ordinary : rny reason is, the shorter the hook is of the 

 shank, it will hurt the live Fish the lesse, and must be armed 

 with small wyre well softned ; but I hold a hook armed with 

 twisted silk to be better, for it will hurt the live fish least. 



If you arm your hook with wyre, the neeld must be 

 made with a small hook at the one end thereof. If you 

 arme with silke, the neeld must be made with an eye : then 

 must you take one of those Baits alive (which you can get) 

 and with one of your neelds enter within a strawes breath 

 of the Gill of the Fish, so put the neeld betwixt the skin 

 and the Fish ; then pull the neeld out at the hindmost 

 finne, and draw the arming thorow the Fish, until the hook 

 come to lye close to the Fishes bodie : But I hold for those 

 that be armed with wyre to take off the hook, and put the 

 neeld in the hindmost fin and so to come forth at the Gill ; 

 then put on the hook drawn close to the body, 'twill hurt the 

 live Fish the less, so knit the arming with the live Fish to 

 the Line ; then put off either in Maior or Pond, with the 

 winde, in the River with the stream : The more you put 

 off in Maior or Pond, you are like to have the more 

 pleasure : For the River 1 have shewed you before. 



There is a time when Pikes goe a Frogging Ditches, and 

 in the River to Sun them, as in May, June and July, there 

 is a speedy way to take them, and not to misse scarce one 

 in twenty. 



You must take a Line of six or eight foot long, arm a 



