THE THIRD DAY. 



(Continued.) 



'CHAPTER XI. 



OP ANGLING AT THE BOTTOM FOR TROUT OR GRAYLING BY HAND, WITH A 

 RUNNING LINE WITH A CORK OR FLOAT VARIOUS BAITS. 



Viat. So, sir, now we are here, and set, let me have my 

 instructions for angling for trout and grayling, at the 

 bottom ; which, though not so easy, so cleanly, nor, as 'tis 

 said, so genteel, a way of fishing, as with a fly, is yet (if I 

 mistake not) a good holding way, and takes fish when 

 nothing else will. 



Pise. You are in the right, it does so : and a worm is so 

 sure a bait at all times, that excepting in a flood, I would I 

 had laid a thousand pounds that I killed fish more, or less 

 with it, winter or summer every day throughout the year ; 

 those days always excepted, that, upon a more serious 

 account, always ought so to be. But not longer to delay 

 you, I will begin : and tell you, that angling at the bottom 

 is also commonly of two sorts ; and yet there is a third 

 way of angling with a ground-bait, and to very great effect 

 too, as shall be said hereafter : namely, by hand, or with a 

 cork or float. 



That we call angling by hand is of three sorts. 



The first : with a line about half the length of the rod, a 

 good weighty plumb, and three hairs next the hook, which 

 we call a running-line, and with one large brandling, or a 

 dew-worm of a moderate size, or two small ones of the first, 

 or any other sort, proper for a trout, of which my father 

 Walton has already given you the names, and saved me a 

 labour ; or indeed almost any worm whatever ; for if a trout 



