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pr/soner per for it is fie lesse mastry to take hym 

 But in rewarde ye schall angle cuery place vvher 

 it is depe and clere by J)e grounde as grauel or 

 clay vn'th owti?n mudde or wedes and especiall yf 

 per be a werly wherly pyt of watur or a couerte 

 as an holow banke or greyt rottes of treys or long 

 wedys flotyng a boue pe watur vvher pe fysche 

 may couer hym at dyu^rse tymes Also in depe 

 stiff stremys and yn falles of watur and weeres 

 flode gates and mylle pittes and weyr pe watur 

 restith by the banke & pe streme renneyth nye 

 per by and ys dep & clere by the grounde and yn 

 oper places wher he may se any fyche howvyng 

 and fede a bove. 



Wat tyme of pe day is best to angleyng. 

 Ye schall wete pe best tyme is to angle from the 

 be gynnyng of May vn to Septembr^ the bytywg 

 tyme ys erly by the morow from iiij at cloke vn to 

 viij At aftur none from iiij vn to viij but not 

 so good as is in pe morow And yf hyt be a 

 colde westeling wynde and a darke lowryng 

 day Jian wyl Jie fysche co/«mynly bite all day 

 For a darke day is moche betur fen any oper 

 cleyr wedur from the be gynnyng of September 

 vn to pe ende of Apryle spare no tyme of the day 

 Also mony poyl fysche wvl bylte beste yn none 



