ording to the swiftnesse of the stream you Angle in; for one
plummet will not serve for all streams; for the true Angling is that
the plummet runneth on the ground.

For the Bait. The red knotted worme is very good where Brandlins are
not to be had, but Brandlins are better: now that you may bring these
Brandlings fit to Angle with, that they may live long on the hook,
which causeth the best sport. When you have gathered your worms out of
the dung-hill, you must gaine the greenest Moss you can find, then
wash the earth very clean out of it, then provide an earthen pot, so
put your Moss into the pot, then put the worms to the Moss into the
pot; within two days you shall find your worms so poor, that if you
bait some of them on your hook, you shall see that with throwing of
them two or three times into the water, they will dye and grow white:
now the skill is, when these worms be grown poor, you must feed them
up to make them fat and lusty, that they may live long on the hook;
that is the chiefest point.

To make them lusty and fat, you must take the yolke of an Egge, some
eight or ten spoonfull of the top of new milk, beaten well together in
a Porringer, warm it a little, untill you see it curdle; then take it
off the fire, and set it to coole; when it is cold, take a spoonfull
and drop it upon your Moss into the pot, every drop about the bignesse
of a green Pea, shifting your Moss twice in the week in the Summer,
and once in the winter: thus doing, you shall feed your wormes fat,
and make them lusty, that they will live a long time on the hook; so
you may keep them all the year long. This is my true experience for
the ground Baits, for the running Line for the Trout.

The Angling with a Menow, called in some places Pencks for a Trout, is
a pleasant sport, and killeth the greatest Fish; he commeth boldly to
the Bait, as if it were a Mastive Dog at a Beare: you may Angle with
greater Tackles, and stronger, and be no prejudice to you in your
Angling: a Line made of three silks and three hairs twisted for the
uppermost part of the Line, and two silkes and two haires twisted for
the bottome next your hook, with a Swivel nigh the middle of your
Line, with an indifferent large hook.

To bait your hook with a Menow, you must put your hook through the
lowermost part of his mouth, so draw your hook thorow, then put the
hook in at the mouth againe, let the point of the hook come out at the
hindmost Fin, then draw your Line, an