betwixt the fish and the skin, that the Menow may swim
up and down alive, being boyed up with a Cork or Quill, that the Menow
may have liberty to swimme a foot off the ground: there is no doubt of
sport with profit.

I will shew, a little, my opinion of floating for scale fish in the
River or Pond: The feed brings the Fish together, as the sheep to the
Pen: There is nothing better in all your Anglings, for feed, then
Bloud and Grains; I hold it better then Paste: then plumming your
ground, Angling with fine Tackles, as single haire for halfe the Line
next the hook, round and small plumed, according to your float: For
the Bait, there is a small red worm, with a yellow tip on his taile,
is very good; Brandlins, Gentles, Paste, or Cadice, which we call
Cod-bait, they lye in a gravelly husk under stones in the River: these
be the speciall Baits for these kinde of Fish.

One of my name was the best Trouler, for a Pike, in this Realme: he
laid a wager, that he would take a Pike of four foot long, of Fish,
within the space of one Moneth, with his Trouling-Rod; so he Trouled
three weeks and odde days, and took many great Pikes, nigh the length,
but did not reach the full length, till within the space of three
dayes of the time; then he took one, and won the wager. The manner of
his Trouling was, with a Hazell Rod of twelve foot long, with a Ring
of Wyre in the top of his Rod, for his Line to runne thorow: within
two foot of the bottome of the Rod there was a hole made, for to put
in a winde, to turne with a barrell, to gather up his Line, and loose
at his pleasure; this was his manner of Trouling: But I will pawn my
credit, that I will shew a way, either in Maior, Pond, or River, that
shall take more Pikes than any Trouler with his Rod: And thus it is.
First, take forked stick, a Line of twelve yards long wound upon it,
at the upper end, leave about a yard, either to tye a bunch of Sags,
or a Bladder, to Boy up the Fish, and to carry it from the ground: the
Bait must be a live Fish, either Dace, or Gudgin, or Roach, or a
small Trout: the forked stick must have a slit in the one side of the
fork to put in the Line, that you may set your live Fish to swimme at
a gage, that when the Pike taketh the Bait, he may have the full
liberty of the Line for his feed.

You may turne these loose, either in Pond or River: in the Pond with
the winde all day long, the more the better: at night set some small
weight, as may stay the Boy, as