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four or five lengths above it ; and a worm of what size you 

 please : your plumbs fitted to your cork, your cork to the 

 condition of the river (that is, to the swiftness or slowness 

 of it), and both, when the water is very clear, as fine as you 

 can ; and then you are never to bait with above one of the 

 lesser sort of brandlings ; or, if they are very little ones 

 indeed, you may then bait with two, after the manner before 

 directed. 



"When you angle for a trout, you are to do it as deep, 

 that is, as near the bottom as you can, provided your bait 

 do not drag ; or if it do, a trout will sometimes take it in 

 that posture. If for a grayling, you are then to fish further 

 from the bottom, he being a fish that usually swims nearer 

 to the middle of the water, and lies always loose ; or, how- 

 ever, is more apt to rise than a trout, and more inclined to 

 rise than to descend even to a ground-bait. 



With a grub or cadis, you are to angle with the same 

 length of line, or if it be all out as long as your rod, 'tis 

 not the worse; with never above one hair for two or 

 three lengths next the hook, and with the smallest cork 

 or float, and the least weight of plumb you can that 

 will but sink, and that the swiftness of your stream 

 will allow : which also you may help, and avoid the 

 violence of the current, by angling in the returns of a 

 stream, or the eddies betwixt two streams ; which also 

 are the most likely places wherein to kill a fish in a stream, 

 either at the top or bottom. 



Of grubs for a grayling, the ash-grub, which is plump, 

 milk-white, bent round from head to tail, and exceeding 

 tender, with a red head ; or the dock-worm, or grub, of a 

 pale yellow, longer, lanker, and tougher, than the other, 

 with rows of feet all down his belly, and a red head also, 

 are the best, 1 I say, for a grayling: because, although a 

 trout will take both these, the ash-grub especially, yet he 

 does not do it so freely as the other, and I have usually 

 taken ten graylings for one trout with that bait : though if 

 a trout come, I have observed that he is commonly a very 

 good one. 



These baits we usually keep in bran, in which an ash-grub 



1 These are both beetle-grubs, and any beetle-grub will do for this 



