CHAP, v.] THE FOURTH DAY. 93 



you may take notice, some say that "camphire put into your bag 

 with your moss and worms gives them a strong and so tempting 

 a smell, that the fish fare the worse and you the better for it. 



And now, I shall show you how to bait your hook with a 

 worm so as shall prevent you from much trouble, and the loss of 

 many a hook, too, when you fish for a Trout with a running line ; * 

 that is to say, when you fish for him by hand at the ground. I 

 will direct you in this as plainly as I can, that you may not 

 mistake. 



Suppose it be a big lob-worm : put your hook into him some- 

 what above the middle, and out again a little below the middle : 

 having so done, draw your worm above the arming of your hook ; 

 but note that, at the entering of your hook, it must not be at the 

 head-end of the worm, but at the tail-end of him, that the point 

 of your hook may come out toward the head-end ; and having 

 drawn him above the arming of your hook, then put the point of 

 your hook again into the very head of the worm, till it come near 

 to the place where the point of the hook first came out, and then 

 draw back that part of the worm that was above the shank or 

 arming of your hook, and so fish with it. And if you mean to 

 fish with two worms, then put the second on before you turn back 

 the hook's-head of the first worm. You cannot lose above two or 

 three worms before you attain to what I direct you ; and having 

 attained it, you will find it very useful, and thank me for it : for 

 you will run on the ground without tangling. 



Now for the Minnow or Penk : he is not easily found and 

 caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the 

 river ; nature having taught him to shelter and hide himself, in the 

 winter, in ditches that be near to the river ; and there both to 

 hide and keep himself warm in the mud, or in the weeds,^ which 

 rot not so soon as in a running river, in which place if he were 

 in winter, the distempered floods that are usually in that season 



VARIATION. 



6 For the Minnow or Penke, he is easily found and caught in April, for then he 

 appears in the rivers ; but nature hath taught him to shelter and hide himself in the 

 winter in ditches that be near to the river, and there both to hide and keep himself warm 

 in the weeds, &c. — rst and 2d edit. 



* The ntnntng line, so called because it runs along the ground, is usually made of 

 strong silk ; but many prefer hair, thus fitted up. About ten inches from the end, fasten 

 a small cleft shot ; then make a hole through a pistol or musket bullet, according to the 

 swiftness of the stream you fish in ; and put the line through it, and draw the bullet 

 down to the shot : to the end of your line fasten an Indian-grass or silkworm gut, with 

 a large hook. Or you may, instead of a bullet, fix four large shot, at the distance of 

 eight inches from the hook. This line is used for Trout, Grayling, and Salmon-smelts ; 

 and is proper only for streams and rapid waters. 



