ong 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 slow 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-Flys_ 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 Wayes 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-Suet, _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 rafty _Bacon_.

Lastly, _Mutton_-Kidney Suet, 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 and approved for _Chevin_.

All which Pastes when you use them, that you may have the desired
Effects of your Pains infallibly follow, anoint your Bait with this
Confection: Take the Oyl of _Aspray_, _Coculus India_, and _Assa Foetida_
beaten, and mix with it as much Life-_Honey_; then dissolve them in the
Oyle 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._

For the keeping and preserving all quick Baits, you must keep them
separately as they are several, not altogether; and f