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large hook, of the largest size that is made ; arm it to your 

 Line, lead the shank of your hook very handsom, that it 

 may be of such a weight as you may guide the hook at 

 your pleasure : you may strike the Pike, you see, with the 

 bare hook where you please : this Line and hook doth far 

 exceed snaring. 



The principal! sport to take a Pike, is to take a Goose 

 or Gander, or Duck : take one of the Pike Lines I have 

 shewed you before : tye the Line under the left wing, and 

 over the right wing, about the body, as a man weareth 

 his Belt : turne the Goose off into a Pond, where Pikes 

 are, there is no doubt of sport, with great pleasure, betwixt 

 the Goose and the Pihe : It is the greatest sport and 

 pleasure that a noble Gentleman in Shropshire doth give 

 his friends entertainment with. 



The way to make the best paste is, Take, a reasonable 

 quantity of fresh Butter, as much fresh sheeps Suet, a rea- 

 sonable quantity of the strongest Cheese you can get, with 

 the soft of an old stale white loafe ; beat all this in a Mor- 

 ter till it come to perfect paste ; put as much on your hook 

 as a green pease. 



There are many waves to take Eeles : I will shew you 

 a good way to take a d'ish of Eeles. When you stay a night 

 or two Angling, take four or five Lines, such as be laid for 

 Pikes, of fourteen or fifteen yards long, and at every two 

 yards make a noose, to hang a hook armed either to double 

 thred, or silk twist; for it is better then wyre: Bait your 

 Hooks with Millors-thumbs, Loaches, Menowes, or Gud- 

 gins : tye to every noose a Line baited : these Lines must 

 be laid crosse the River in the deepest places, either with 

 stones, or pegged, so the Line lie in the bottome.of the 

 river, there is no doubt of taking a dish of Eeles ; you 

 must have a small neeld with an eye, to bait your hooks. 



Now to shew how to make Flies : learn to make two 

 Flies, and make all : that is, the Palmer ribbed with silver 

 or gold, and the May-flie : these are the ground of all Flies. 



We will begin to make the Palmer File : You must arme 

 your Line on the inside of the hook ; take your Scisers, and 

 cut so much of the brown of the Mallards feather, as in 

 your owne reason shall make the wings, then lay the outmost 



