438 THE COMPLETE ANGLEE. [PART II. 



be in the humour to bite, it must be such a worm as I 

 never yet saw, that he will refuse : and if you fish with 

 two, you are then to bait your hook thus. You are first 

 to run the point of your hook in at the very head of 

 your first worm, and so down through his body till it be 

 past the knot, and then let it out, and strip the worm 

 above the arming (that you may not bruise it with your 

 fingers) till you have put on the other, by running the 

 point of the hook in below the knot, and upwards through 

 his body towards his head ; till it be but just covered with 

 the head, which being done, you are then to slip the first 

 worm down over the arming again, till the knots of both 

 worms meet together. 



The second way of angling by hand, and with a running- 

 line, is with a line something longer than the former, and 

 with tackle made after this same manner. At the utmost 

 extremity of your line, where the hook is always placed in 

 all other ways of angling, you are to have a large pistol, or 

 carabine, bullet, into which the end of your line is to be 

 fastened with a peg or pin, even and close with the bullet ; 

 and, about half a foot above that, a branch of line, of two or 

 three handfuls long, or more for a swift stream, with a hook 

 at the end thereof baited with some of the fore-named 

 worms ; and another half foot above that : another, armed 

 and baited after the same manner, but with another sort of 

 worm, without any lead at all above : by which means you 

 will always certainly find the true bottom in all depths; 

 which, with the plumbs upon your line above you can never 

 do, but that your bait must always drag whilst you are 

 sounding (which in this way of angling, must be continually) 

 by which means you are like to have more trouble, and per- 

 adventure worse success. And both these ways of angling 

 at the bottom, are most proper for a dark and muddy 

 water; by reason that in such a condition of the stream, 

 a man may stand as near as he will, and neither his 

 own shadow, nor the roundness of his tackle, will hinder his 

 sport. 



The third way of angling by hand with a ground-bait, and 

 by much the best of all other, is, with a line full as long, or 

 a yard and a half longer than your rod ; with no more than 

 one hair next the hook, and for two or three lengths above 



