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The Complete Angler,: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation,
The Complete Angler Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Author:Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Jesse Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a fifh too, but it proves a logger- headed Chub; and this is not much a mifs, for this wil pleafure fome poor body, as we go to our lodging to meet our broth... more »er Peter and honeft Coridon- Come, now bait your hook again, and lay it into the water, for it rains again, and we wil ev'n retire to the Sycamore tree, and there I wil give you more diredtions concerning fiming; for I would fain make yon an Artift. Fiat. Yes, good Mafter, I pray let it be fo. CHAP. CHAP. V. Pilc, nr T"V T"EL, Scholar, fate downe and are at eafe, I fhall tel you a little more of Trout fifhing before I fpeak of the Salmon, (which I pur- pofe fhall be next) and then of the Pike or Luce. You are to know, there is night as well as day-fiming for a Trout , and that then the beft are out of their holds; and the manner of taking them is on the top of the water with a great Lab or Garden u'orm, or rather two ; which you are to fifh for in a place where the water runs fomewhat quietly (for in a ftream it wil not be fo well difcer- ned.) I fay, in a quiet or dead place neer to fome fwift, there draw your bait over the top of the water to and fro, and if there be a good Trout in the hole, he wil take it, efpeciaJ- ly if the night "be dark; for then lie lies boldly neerthe top of the water, watching the motion of any Frog or Water-moufe, or Rat betwixt him and the skie, which he hunts for if hefees thewater butwrinkle or move in one of thefe dead holes, where the great Trouts ufually lye neer to their hold. And you muft fifh for him with a ftrong line, and not a little hook, and let him have time to gorge your hook, for he does not ufually for- fake it, as he oft will in the day- fiming: and if the night be not dark, then fifh fo with an Artificialflyrof a light colour; nay he will fometimes rife at ...« less