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THE COMPLETE ANGLE E. 



[PART i. 



take my leave of him : and now come to some observations 

 of the salmon, and how to catch him. 



streams. Baits for the grayling are chiefly the same as those for the trout, 

 except the minnow, which he will not take so freely. He will also take 

 gentles very eagerly. When you fish for him with a fly you can hardly use 

 one too small. The grayling is much more apt to rise than descend ; 

 therefore, when you angle for him, alone, and not for the trout, use a 

 float, with the bait from six to nine inches from the bottom, rather than 

 the running-line. 



The grayling is found in great plenty in many rivers in the north, 

 particularly the Humber. And in the Wye, which runs through Hereford- 

 shire and Monmouthshire into the Severn, I have taken with an artificial 

 fly, very large ones ; as also great numbers of a small, but excellent fish, of 

 the trout kind, called a Last-spring ; of which, somewhat will be said in a 

 subsequent note. They are not easily to be got at without a boat, or wading ; 

 for which reason, those of that country use a thing they call a THORKICLE, 



or TRUCKLE : in some places 



_;,.. it is called a coble, from 



the Latin "corbula," a little 

 basket : it is a basket shaped 

 like the half of a walnut's 

 shell, but shallower in propor- 

 tion, and covered on the out- 

 side with a horse' -hide ; it has 

 a bench in the middle, and 

 will just hold one person : and 

 is so light that the countrymen 

 will hang it on their heads like 

 a hood, and, so, travel, with 

 a small paddle which serves 

 for a stick, till they come to a 

 river ; and then they launch 

 it, and step in : there is great 

 difficulty in getting into one 

 of those truckles, for the 

 instant you touch it with your 



foot it flies from you : and when you are in, the least inclination of the body 

 oversets it. It is very diverting to see how upright a man is forced to sit 

 in these vessels, and to maifk with what state and solemnity he draws up 

 the stone which serves for an anchor, when he would remove, and lets it 

 down again : however, it is a sort of navigation that I would wish our 

 piscatory disciple never to attempt. H. 



