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A44818	The school of recreation, or, A guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, fireworks, military discipline, the science of defence, [brace] [brace] hawking, tennis, bowling, ringing, singing, cock-fighting, fowling, angling by R.H.	Howlett, Robert.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3195; ESTC R41004	93,643	192

sundry kinds by these following Names The Barbel Bream Bleak Bulhead or Millers-thumb Chevin Char Chub Carp Daoe Dare Ele Flounder Grayling Gudgeon Guiniad Loach Minnow Pope or Pike Pearch Rud Roach Sticklebag or Bansticle Salmon Shad Suant Tench Torcoth Trout Thwait and Vmber All these Alphabetically thus named are the different sorts of Fish in taking which the Angler commonly exercises his Art We come next Where to find them I. To know the Haunts and Resorts of Fish in which they are to be usually found is the most Material thing the Angler ought to be instructed in lest he vainly prepare how to take them and preposterously seek where to find that he prepar'd for To prevent which you are first to understand That as the season of the Year is so Fish change their places In Summer some keep near the top others the bottom of the Waters In Winter all Fish in general resort to deep Waters But more particularly The Barbel Roach Dace and Ruff covet most Sandy Gravelly Ground the deepest part of the River and the shadows of Trees Bream Pike and Chub delight in a Clay and Owzie Ground The Bream chooseth the middle of the River in a gentle not too rapid Stream The Pike preferreth still Waters full of Fry and absconding himself amongst Bull-rushes Water-docks or under Bushes that under these shelters he may more securely surprize and seize his Prey The Chub too chooses the same Ground large Rivers and Streams and is rarely destitute of some Tree to cover and shade him Carp Tench and Eel frequent foul muddy still Waters The greatest Eels lurk under stones or Roots the smallest ones are found in all sorts of Rivers or Soils The Carp is for the deepest stillest part of Pond or River and so is the Tench and both delight in green Weeds Pearch delighteth in gentle Streams of a reasonable Depth not too shallow close by a hollow Bank is their common Sanctuary Gudgeon covets Sandy Gravelly Gentle Streams and smaller Rivers not so much abounding in Brooks He bites best in Spring till they spawn and a little after till Wasp time The Salmon delights in large swift Rivers which ebb and flow and are there plentifully to be found As likewise Rocky and Weedy Rivers But in the latter end of the Year he is to be found high up in the Country in swift and violent Cataracts coming thither to spawn The Trout loves small swift purling Brooks or Rivers that run upon Stones or Gravel and in the swiftest deepest part of them getteth behind some Stone-block and there feeds He delights in a Point of a River where the Water comes Whirling like the Eddy to catch what the Stream brings down especially if he has the shade of a Tree He hugely delights to lurk under some hollow Bank or Stone seldom among Weeds Shad Thwait Plaice Peel Mullet Suant and Flownder covet chiefly to be in or near the Salt or Brackish Waters which ebb and flow The last viz. the Flownder have been taken in fresh Rivers as coveting Sand and Gravel deep gentle streams near Banks c. Lastly the Vmber affects Marly Clay Ground clear and swift Streams far from the Sea the greatest Plenty of these Fish is found in Darbyshire and Staffordshire Thus much for the Haunts of Fish I come next to know When is the most seasonable time to catch them which before I speak to let him that would become a compleat Angler take this Rule That he observe narrowly what Pond or River soever he Fisheth in whether it be slimy muddy stony or gravelly whether of a swift or flow Motion as likewise that he know the Nature of each Fish and what Baits are most proper for every kind Not to let his Knowledg be circumscribed to one or two particular Rivers whither he is invited to Angle and take his Observations by the Vicinity of his House but to let his Knowledge be general and consequently his Sport will be so too His Ignorance otherwise will oblige him to be a Spectator in another River when his Excellency is confined to that only experienced one in or near his own Parish or House But to proceed II. To understand the best Time when to Angle in We must first consider Affirmatively when most Seasonable Or 2. Negatively when Vnseasonable 1. Seasonable Angling is when the Weather is calm serene and clear tho' the Cool cloudy Weather in Summer is to be preferred provided the Wind blow not too boistrously to hinder your easy Guiding your Tools In the hottest Months the cooler the better 2. When a Violent shower hath disturbed the Water and mudded it then with a Red Worm Angle in the Stream at the Ground 3. A little before Fish spawn when they repair to gravelly Fords to rub and loosen their full Bellies they bite freely 4. From Sun-rising till eight of the Clock in the Morning and from four in the Afternoon till night for Carp and Tench In June and July Carps shew themselves on the very rim of the Water then Fish with a Lob-worm as you would with a Natural Fly But be sure to keep out of sight 5. In March April and September and all Winter when the Air is clear serene and warm And after a shower of Rain which hath only beaten the Gnats and Flies into the River without muddying The two first mentioned Months with May and part of June are most proper for the Fly Nine in the Morning and Three a Clock in the Afternoon is the best time as likewise when the Gnats play much in a warm Evening 6. In a Cloudy and Windy day after a Moon-shine clear Night for the brightness of the Night through fear making them abstain from feeding and the Gloominess of the Day emboldening and rendering them through Hunger sharp and eager upon food they bite then freely 7. Lastly at the opening of Milldams or Sluces you will find Trouts c. come forth seeking food brought down by the Water We come next to demonstrate the time not proper i. e. 2. Vnseasonable Angling in short is when the Earth is parched and scorched with Vehement Heat and Drought benummed and frozen with Cold Frost and Snow or refrigerated with Spring Hoar-Frosts or blasted with the sharp bitter nipping North or East Winds Or when blustring Boreas disorders your well guiding your Tackling or the Sheep-shearers Washings glutted the Fish and anticipated your Bait when the withdrawing of your Sport foretells a Storm and advises you to some shelter or Lastly when the night proves Dark and Cloudy you need not trouble your self the next day 't is to no purpose c. III. For providing Stocks the best time is the Winter Solstice when the Sap is in the Roots of Trees and their Leaves gone It is improper after January the Sap then ascending into the Trunk and expending it self over all the Branches See that your Stocks be Taper-grown and your Tops of the best Ground-Hazle that can be had smooth slender

quarters of a pound and your Cord to a strong Pole and in muddy Waters you may Fish and find the Eels tug lustily and when you think they have swallowed them draw up your Line and ashore with them Lastly the Eel-spear made with four teeth jagged on both sides stricken into the Mud on the bottom of a River and if you chance to strike where they lye you infallibly take There is likewise an assured way of taking Eels thus done Take some Bottles of Hay mixt with green Osiers or Willows Bait them with Sheeps-Guts or other Beasts Garbage sink them down in the middle to the bottom of your Pond or by the Bank sides having fastned a Cord to the Bottles that you may twitch them up at your pleasure and all the best Eels will resort to them The Flounder Shad Thwait Suant and Mullet are taken with Red-Worms of all sorts Wasps and Gentles For the Grayling you must head your Hook upon the shank with a slender and narrow plate of Lead that the Bait a large Grass-hopper may the more easily come over it and at the point put a Cad-bait and keep the Bait in continual motion not forgetting to pull off the Grass-hoppers Wings The Gudgeon takes the smallest Red-Worm Wasps Gentles and Cadbaits When you Fish for him stir up the Sand or Gravel with a Pole which will make them gather thither and bite more eagerly The Guiniad I shall remit speaking to only mentioning it in course being no where found but in a place called Pemble-Mere in which place they abound as the River Dee does with Salmon The Pope or Ruff is excellent for a young Angler bites greedily and quantities may be taken by Baiting the Ground with fat Earth and your Hook with small Red-Worms The Pike loveth all sorts of Baits unless the Fly Gudgeon Dace Roaches and Loaches and young Frogs in Summer time of which the yellowest is best The Pearch taketh all sorts of Earth-worms especially the Lob-worm and Brandling well scowred Bobs Oak-worms Dors Gentles Cole-wort-worms Wasps Cad-baits and Menow or a little Frog the Hook being fastned through the skin of his Leg towards the upper part of it Be sure you give the Pearch time enough to pouch his Bait before you strike The Salmon is taken best with Lob-worms scented with the Oyl of Ivy Berries or the Oyl of Polypody of the Oak mixt with Turpentine Or the well scowred Garden-worm is an excellent Bait The Salmon bites best in May June and July at three a Clock in the Afternoon if the Water be clear a little Wind stirring especially near the Sea The Tench is a great lover or large Red worms first dipt in Tar. As also all sorts of Paste made up with strong scented Oyls or Tar or a Paste made up of Brown Bread and Honey He will bite too at a Cad-worm Lob-worm Flag-worm green Gentle Cadbait Marsh-worm or soft boil'd Bread-grain c. The Torcoth being before mentioned I only let you know that he is only found in the Pool Linperis in Carnarvon-shire and leave you to the Welchmens description both of him and his Bait. The Trout is fattest and in his prime in May and is caught with all sorts of Worms especially Brandlings commonly found in an Old Dunghill Cow-dung Hogs-dung or Tanners-bark Also with Flies Natural and Artificial with young Frogs Menow Marsh Dock or Flag-worms all sorts of Cadbait Dors Bobs Palmers Gentles Wasps Hornets c. and with the Caterpiller used according to the Rule before prescribed for the Grayling Lastly The Vmber is taken as the Trout just now mentioned And therefore now to your Sport To assist your well effecting which I have but this to add Cast into your Haunts where you use to Fish once in four or five days soft boiled Corn or oftner for Carp and Tench Also Garbage Beasts Livers chopt Worms Grains steept in Blood to attract them to the place and to keep them together throw in half a handful of Grains or ground Malt But in a stream cast it above your Hook that floating towards you you may draw the Fish thither Sundry curious Baits for Fish These grow on the Cuccow pints or wak-Robin and are found in dry ditches overgrown with Brambles they are about the bigness of Pease and in July and August are of a lovely transparent Red and are excellent baits for Roaches and Chubs and for the first two will serve but for the latter you may put four or five at a time on the Hook Oat-Cakes with Cheese Beat these together into a Paste the Cheese being new and stick them together with a little Honey letting the Paste Lye all Night in a wet Linnen Cloath then fit it up in baits and cover your Hook with it To keep Baits for the Pike or Night-hooks For this take a small Roach Dace Loach Minnow Smelt small Trout or Pearch cutting off the Finns on the back or small Eels well scoured in Wheat-Bran which will keep them better and longer taking a way the slime and watery substance that causes them to rot or decay the sooner Fishes Eyes Take out the Eyes of such Fish as you catch and put three or four of them on a Hook and they will prove an excellent bait for most sorts of Fish Fat Bacon Cut this in little small Long ships and especially at Snap it is exceeding good to take a Chub or Pike from the latter end of August to the beginning of April The Pith of the Back-bone of a Sheep Take out the Pith that runs through the Back-bone and take off the Tough outward Skin and leave the thin tender white Skin on and bait with about half an Inch of it and it takes a Chevin to admiration Grain VVheat Malt. Bruise either of these finely fry them in Honey make them up into Pasts with Oyl of Peter and either in Winter or Summer they take Chub Roach Dace or Bleak How to bring Fish if any in the Pond or River to the place you desire Boyl clean Barly in Water till it bursts with Licorice and a little Mummy add some Honey and beat them together in a Mortar into a stiff Paste and boyl about the quantity of a Wall-nut of this Paste with a quart of Barly till it grows Glutenous and then lay it for a ground bait and the Fish will flock about it from all parts To make worms for Baits come out of the Ground Boyl an Ounce of Verdigrise in a quart of strong Vinegar and Sprinkle a little in places where you suspect Worms are and they will Crawl out of the Ground Another approved Bait. Take the Fat of a Heron Mummy and Galbanum of each two drams Scent them with a Grain of Musk and make them up with two Ounces of Aqua-vitae stir them over a gentle Fire in an Earthen Vessel till they become thick and with this rub the Hook and end of the Line and the Scent of it will draw the Fish to it you must also

have at the same time a proper Bait on your Hook for such Fish as are in the place you Angle The Artificial Cod or Cad Bait. Make the Body of yellow Bees-wax and head of black Dubin and black Silk or you may make the Body of yellow washed Leather Shamey or Buff and the head all of black Silk and this is an Incomparable bait for Trout Salmon or Smelts and those that are natural are most Excellent baits for Trout Grayling Salmons Tench Roach Chub Dace Carp Tench Ruff Bream and Bleak but then you must Fish with it in clear Water only Rules and Considerations about Baits in general Fish in general take all such baits freely as nature at that season affords in or near the places where you Angle for being used to them they are not afraid of any deceit but take them as their common food And for flies in this case in a Morning or Evening when you go to Angle beat the bushes about the Rivers or Ponds and such Flies as you rouse there Fish with either Natural or imitate them by Art as also see what Worms or other Insects fit for baits stick on the Leaves Grass or are in the Water and in this Observation you cannot miss of good Sport and when you have struck gently the backway draw a little and be not too hasty to take up before the Fish has had her play and spent her strength lest she break your Tackle If your Fish be large you must use your Landing Net To take Fish in the Night with a Light This is an Admirable way to supply you with a sudden Dish viz. Take a Glass in the form of a Urinal very deep put as much Clay in the bottom of it as will sink the Mouth of it within an Inch of the Water floating on pieces of Cork tied about the Neck to keep it steadily upright then place a Candle in it by sticking it in the Clay-socket anointing the out side of the Glass with Oyl of Asper This Light will shine a great way in a still Water so that the Fish being amazed at so unusual a Sight will come out of their holes about it and be detained with the scent of the Oyl so long that with a Hoop-net you may take great store of them Flies proper for every Month. For February little red brow Palmer flies the Plain Hackle the Silver Hackle the Gold Hackle the great Dun the great blew Dun the dark brown For March the little whirling Dun the early bright Brown the whitish Dun the Thorn-tree fly the blue Dun the little black Gnat the little bright Brown For April the small bright Brown the little dark brown the great whirling Dun the Violet Fly the yellow Dun the Horse-flesh-fly For May the Dun-cout the Green-drake the Stone-fly the black May fly the little yellow May Fly the Gray-drake the Camlet fly the Turkey Fly the yellow Palmer the black-flat Fly the light-brown the little Dun the white Gnat the Peacock Fly the Cow-Lady the Cowturd-fly For June From the first to the 24th the Green Drake and Stone Fly the Owl fly the Barm fly the purple Hackle the purple Gold Hackle the flesh Fly the little flesh Fly the Peacock fly the Ant fly the brown Gnat the little black Gnat the Green-Grasshopper the Dun Grasshopper the Brown Hackle For July The Badger fly the Orange fly the little white Dun the Wasp fly the Black Hackle the Shell fly the black brown Dun. For August The late Ant fly the Fern fly the white Hackle the Harry-long-Legs For September The Cammel brown fly the late Badger fly For October The same Flies that were used in March The best time to Angle in 1. If in the hot Months cloudy Weather is best when a small Gale stirs the Water 2. When the Floods have carryed away the filth that sudden Showers Incumbered the Water withall and the River and Pond retains its usual bounds looking of a whitish Colour 3. When a violent Shower has troubled or muddied the River or a little before the Fish spawn at what time they come into the sandy Ground to loosen their Bellies 4. After Rains when the Rivers keep their bounds yet rise and run swiftly for then they seek shelter in Creeks and little Rivulets running into the River 5. Fish for Carp and Tench early that is before Sun rise till Eight in the Morning and from four in the Afternoon till after Sun set In March the beginning of April and the latter end of September and all Winter when there are no great Frosts the Fish bite in the warm of the day the wind being still but in Summer Months Morning and Evening is best 6. Fish rise best at the Fly after the shower has muddied or Clouded the Waters and Fish with Flies in generally March April May and the beginning of June is the best for Trout you may Angle in a clear star light Night for they are then roaving about for prey he bites best in muddy water and the best time of Fishing for him is from 8 to 10 in the Morning and from three till five in the Afternoon 7. The Salmon Fishery is best in May June July and August from three in the Afternoon till Sun set and in the Morning as before 8. The Barble bites best early in the Morning till Ten or Eleven in May June July and the beginning of August 9. The Pearch and Ruff bites best all day in cool Cloudy Weather 10. The Carp and Tench bite early and late in the still parts of the River June July and August as likewise do the Chevin whose chief bait is white Snails and small Lamperies 11. The Breem bites from Sun rise till nine or ten in the Morning in muddy Water especially the Wind blowing hard for the most part keeping in the Middle of the Pond or River in May June July and August 12. Angle for the Pike in clear Water when it is stirred by a gentle Gale in July August September and October and then he bites best about three in the Afternoon but all the day in Winter and in April May and the beginning of June early in the Morning and late at Evening 13. The Roach and Dace bite all the day long at the Top of the Water at flies natural and Arteficial also at Grass-hoppers and all sorts of Worms if the Water be shady 14. The Gudgeon bites best in April till she has Spawned in May or if the Weather be cold till Wasp time and at the end of the year all day long near to a gentle Stream Observe when you Angle for her to stir and rake the Ground and the Bait will be taken the better 15. The Flounder in April bites all day May June and July especially in swift Streams yet he will bite tho' not so freely in a still Deep Of Fish-ponds Grounds most fit and proper to be cast into a Pond are those which are Marshy or Boggy or full of Springs unfit for Grazing or to be put to any profitable use besides Of these the last full of Springs will yield the best Water that which is Marshy will feed Fish and what is Boggy is best for a Defence against Thieves First draw by small Trenches all the Springs into one place and so drain the rest of the Ground then mark out the Head of your Pond and make it the highest part of the ground in the Eye tho' it be the lowest in a Level Cut the Trench of your Flood-gate so that when the Water is let out it may have a swift fall On each side of which Trench drive in stakes of Oak Ash or Elm six foot long and six Inches square place these in Rows near four foot distance as broad and wide from the Floodgate as you intend the Head of your Pond shall go Dig it in as big and large a Compass as the Ground will permit throw your Earth amongst the said stakes and ram it down hard till you have covered the stakes Drive in as many new ones next the first stakes and ram more Earth above them with stakes above stakes till the head-sides be of a convenient heigth Taking care that the inside of your Banks be smooth even hard and strong that the Current of the Water may not wear off the Earth Having thus digged eight foot deep that so it may carry six foot Water pave the bottom and Banks of the Pond with Sods of Flot-Grass laying them closs together pin them down with stakes and windings This Grass is a great feeder of Fish and grows naturally under Water Stake to the bottom of one side of the Pond Bavens and Brush-Wood-Faggots into which the Fish may cast their spawn Lay Sods upon Sods to nourish and breed Eels The Pond being made let in Water and thus store it Put Carp Bream and Tench by themselves Pike Pearch Eel and Tench the Fishes Physician by themselves for Food of the greater Fishes put store of Roach Dace Loach and Menow and Lastly to one Melter put three Spawners and in three Years the increase will be great and in five Years with difficulty be destroyed In 3 Years Sue your Pond which you must continue to do for the Roach will increase in such abundance that eating up the sweet food will make other Fish as Carps c. be very lean Therefore every Year view your Pond and observe if any such Fry appears thin them To make Carps grow large c. About April when your Pond is low rake the sides where the Water is fallen with an Iron rake sow Hay-seeds there rake it well and at the end of Summer you shall have store of Grass In Winter the Water will over-top the Grass and being Water enough for them the Carps will resort to the sides and feed briskly and grow fat Thus do every Summer till you sue your Pond and no River Carp can surpass them FINIS

and strait of an Ell long pliant and bendings and yet of a strength that a reasonable jerk cannot break it but it will return to its first straightness lest otherwise you endanger your Line Keep them two full years before you use them having preserved them from Worm-eating or Rotting by thrice a year rubbing and chaffing them well with Butter if sweet or Linsed or Sallet-Oyl and if Bored Oyl poured into the Holes and bathed four and twenty hours in it and then thrown out again will exceedingly preserve them The line to make it neat handsom and strong twist the Hair you make it of even having seen if the Hair be of an equal bigness then steep your Line in Water to see if the Hairs shrink if so you must twist them over again The Colour of the Hair is best of Sorrel White and Grey Sorrel for muddy boggy Rivers and the two last for clear Waters Nor is the Pale watry green contemptible died thus Take a pint of strong Ale half a pound of Soot a little of the Juice of Walnut-Leaves and Allum Boil these together in a Pipkin half an hour take it off and when 't is cold put in your Hair In making your Line of Hair mix not Silk but either all Hair or all Silk as likewise distinguish the Line for the Ground Angle and that for the Fly-rod the last must be stronger than the first in that for the Artificial Fly making the uppermost Link twenty Hairs long less in the next and so less till you come to the Fly Lastly at each end of your Line make a Loop called a Bout the one larger to fasten to and take it from the top of your Rod and the other Lesser to hang your Hook-line on Your Hook must be long in the shank something Round in compass the point strait and even and bending in the shank Set on your Hook with strong small Silk laying your Hair on the inside of the Hook Your Flote challenges divers ways of making Some using Muscovy Duck-quills for still Waters Others the best sound Cork without flaws or holes bored through with a hot Iron and a Quill of a fit proportion put into it then pared into a pyramidal Form or in the fashion of a small Pear to what bigness you please and ground smooth with a Grindstone or Pumice this is best for strong Streams In fine To plum the Ground get a Carbine Bullet bored through and in a strong twist hanged on your Hook or Rod. To sharpen your Hook carry a little Whetstone To carry your several Utensils without incommoding your Tackle have several Partitions of Parchment And in short the ingenious Angler will not be unprovided of his Bob and Palmer his Boxes of all sizes for his Hooks Corks Silk Thread Flies Lead c. His Linning and Woollen Bait-bags His splinted Osier light Pannier And lastly his Landen Hook with a Screw at the end to screw it into the socket of a Pole and stricken into the Fish to draw it to Land To which socket a Hook to cut up the Weeds and another to pull out Wood may be fastned Baits are branched into three Kinds First the Life-baits which are all kind of Worms Redworm Maggot Dors Frogs Bobb Brown-flies Grashoppers Hornets Wasps Bees Snails small Roaches Bleak Gudgeon or Loaches Secondly Artificial living Baits of Flies of all sorts and shapes made about your Hooks with Silk and Feathers at all times seasonable especially in blustering Weather Lastly Dead Baits Pasts of all makings Wasps dryed or undryed clotted Sheeps-blood Cheese Bramble-berries Corn Seed Cherries c. The two first good in May June and July the two next in April and the last in the Fall of the Leaf Of Flies Of Natural Flies there are innumerable and therefore it cannot be expected I can particularize all but some of their Names I shall nominate viz. The Dun-Fly Red-Fly May-Fly Tawny-Fly Moor-Fly Shell-Fly Flag-Fly Vine-Fly Cloudy or Blackish-Fly Canker-Flies Bear-Flies Caterpillars and thousands more differing according to the Soils Rivers or Plants Artificial Flies are made by the Ingenious Angler according to Art in shape colour and proportion like the Natural Fly of Fur Wool Silk Feathers c. To delineate which I must confess my self not so accurate and skilful a Painter nor can any Pen-drawing illustrate their Various Colours so as to direct their Artificial Counterfeit Nature will help him in this by Observation curiously Flourishing their several Orient and bright Colours after which they take their names as before said And therefore to furnish your self with both Natural and Artificial Flies repair in the Morning to the River and with a Rod beat the Bushes that hang over the Water and take your Choice 1. Observe to Angle with the Artificial Fly in Rivers disturbed somewhat by Rain or in a Cloudy day the Wind blowing gently If the Wind be not so high but you may well guide your Tackle in plain Deeps is to be found the best Fish and best Sport If small Wind breeze in swift streams is best Angling Be sure to keep your Fly in perpetual slow Motion and observe that the Weather suit the Colour of your Fly as the light Colour'd in a Clear day the Darkish in a dark c. As likewise according to the Waters Complexions have your Fly suitable 2. Let your Line be twice as long as your Rod Keep as far as you can from the Waterside the Sun on your back In casting your Fly let that fall first your Line not touching the Water 3. Have a nimble Eye and active quick Hand to strike presently upon the rising of the Fish lest finding his mistake he spew out the Hook 4. In flow Rivers cast your Fly cross them let it sink a little draw it back gently without breaking or circling the Water let the Fly float with the Current and you will not fail of excellent Sport 5. Observe to let the Wings of your Salmon-Flies to be one behind another whether two or four and they and the Tail long and of the finest gaudiest Colours you can choose Lastly In clear Rivers a small Fly with slender Wings is best and in muddied Rivers a Fly of a more than ordinary large Body Thus much for Flies I come next to that I called Dead-Baits and shall begin with the several Ways of making Pastes Of Pastes 1. Beat in a Mortar the Leg of a Young Coney Vulgarly called the Almond or of a Whelp or Catling and a quantity of Virgins Wax and Sheeps suet till they are incorporated and temper them with clarified Honey into Paste 2. Sheeps-Blood Cheese fine Manchet and clarified Honey tempered as before 3. Sheeps-Kidney-suit Cheese fine Flower with clarified Honey tempered 4. Cherries Sheeps-Blood Saffron and fine Manchet made into a Paste 5. Beat into a Paste the fattest Old Cheese the strongest Rennet can be got fine Wheat-flower and Annis-seed Water If for a Chub you make the Paste put a little rasty Bacon

Lastly Mutton-Kidney-suit and Turmerick reduced to a fine Powder the fattest Old Cheese and strongest Rennet wrought to a Paste adding Turmerick till the Paste be of a curious Yellow and is excellent for Chevin Anoint your Bait with this Confection Take the Oyl of Aspray Coculus Indiae and Assa-foetida beaten and mix with it as much Life-Honey then dissolve them in the Oyl of Polypody and keep it in a close Glass for your use And that your Paste may not wash off your Hook beat Cotten-Wool or Flax into it Of keeping Baits The Red-Worm must be kept in a bag of Red Cloth with a handful of chopt Fennel mixt with half so much fresh black and fertile Mould will scoure and preserve them All other Worms with the Leaves of Trees they are bred on renewing them often in a day Only the Cad-bait Bob and Canker c. must be kept in the same things you find them The great White Maggots keep them in Sheeps Tallow or little bits of a beasts Liver and to scour them hang them warm in a bag of Blanketing with Sand. The Frogs and Grashoppers in wet Moss and long Grass frequently moistned and when used the Legs of the first and the Wings of the other must be cut close off The Flies use them as you take them Only the Wasps Hornets and Humble-Bee must be dryed in an Oven their heads dipt in Sheeps blood and dryed again may be kept in a Box for use And now thus equipt let us walk to the Rivers side To begin then with the Barbel The best time for Angling for this Fish is at the latter end of May June July and beginning of August in his Haunts aforementioned and the best Bait omiting others is the well-scoured Lob-worm being of a curious cleanly Palate as well as shape or Cheese steept an hour or two in clarified Honey He is a subtile Fish extraordinary strong and dogged to be dealt with and therefore be sure to have your Rod and Line strong and long or you may endanger to break it For the Breame The most seasonable time to Angle is from St. James tide till Bartholomew tide He spawneth in June or beginning of July is easily taken as falling on his side after one or two gentle turns and so drawn easily to Land The best Bait for him most delightful to him is the Red-Worm found in Commons and Chalky Grounds after Rain at the root of a great Dock wrapt up in a round Clue He loves also Paste Flag-Worms Wasps Green-Flies Butter-Flies and a Grass-hopper without Legs Bait your Ground the Night before with gross-ground Malt boiled and strained and then in the morning with the Red-Worm bait your Hook and plumbing your Ground within half an Inch Fish The Bleak an eager Fish is caught with all sorts of Worms bred on Trees or Herbs also with Flies Cad-bait Bobs Paste Sheeps-Blood White Snails Wasps Gnats c. In a warm clear day the small Fly at the rim of the Water is best in a Cloudy day Gentles or Cad-baits two foot un-the Water The Bull-head or Millers-Thumb being Childrens recreation I shall speak little of them only being serviceable for Baits I shall only say he is easily taken with a small Worm being lazy and simple and will swallow any thing and the Minnow Loach and Bansticle being of the same diet I place here too The Chevin loveth all sorts of Worms Flies Cheese Grain and Black Worms their Bellies being slit that the White may be seen And very much delighteth in the Pith of an Oxes back the tough outward skin being carefully taken off without breaking the inward tender skin In the Morning early angle for Chevins with a Snail in the heat of the day with some other Bait in the afternoon with the Fly the great Moth with a great Head yellow Body and whitish Wings usually found in Gardens about the Evening The larger the Chevin the sooner taken loving his Bait larger and variety on a Hook The Char is a Lancashire Fish found in a Mere called Winander-Mere in that Country the largest in England For the Chub called by some a Chevin by others a Villain Bait your Hook with a Grass-hopper find the hole where he lies accompanied in a hot-day with twenty or more floating almost on the very superficies of the Water choose which you think best and fairest and drop your Hook some two foot before him and he will bite at it greedily and cannot break hold with his Leather Mouth let him play and tire lest you break your Line If you cannot get a Grass-hopper then any Worm or Fly you will In cold Weather Fish for him near the bottom and the Humble-Bee is the best Bait. Some appropriate Baits according to the Month but I shall Omit that The Chub being best and in his Prime in the Winter a Paste made of Cheese and Turpentine is the only Bait to take him The Carp is subtle and full of Policy will never bite in Cold Weather but in Hot you cannot be too Early or too Late In March he seldom refuseth the Red-worm in June the Cad bait and the three next Months the Grass-hopper Pastes that are sweet of which I have spoken before are very delightful to Carps And especially if you Bait your ground two or three dayes before you angle with Pellets of course Paste Chickens-guts Garbage c. Gentles anointed and a Piece of Scarlet dipt in Honey put them on the Hook is an approved way The Dace Dare Rudd and Roach being much of a kind and feeding I shall put together and are easily taken with small Worms Bobs Cad-baits Flies sheeps-Blood all sorts of Worms bred on Trees or Herbs Paste Wasps Gnat●s Lipberries c. The Heads of the Wasps being dipt in Blood is good for Dace and Dare as is likewise the Ant fly The Eel takes great Red-worms Beef Wasps Guts of Fowl or Fish Menows or small Roaches are good Bait for Night Hooks the Hooks being in the Mouth of the Fish Now because this is very delightful to most I shall prescribe three ways of taking them as are most full of Pleasure The first way is called Sniggling or Broggling for Eels thus Take a strong Line and Hook b●●●ed with a Lob or Garden-Worm and observing where Eels lurk in the day time with a stick forked at the Top gently put your Bait into the Hole and if there be any Eels there you will not fail of a Bite of as large as can be had but pull not too hard lest you spoyl all The second is called Bobbing which is thus done Take some large well scoured Lobs and with a Needle run some strong twisted Silk through them from end to end so many as are enough to wrap about a Board near a dozen times tye them fast with the two ends of the Silk to hang in so many Hanks then fasten all to a strong Cord and a handful above the worms fasten a Plumbet of three