ng_ for _Eels_, thus: Take a strong Line and Hook, baited 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 _Eels_ 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
scowred _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
handfull above the _Worms_ fasten a _Plumb_ of three 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 a-shore 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_, approved to excel any
other, 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,
and you may take abundance.

The _Flounder_, _Shad_, _Thwait_, _Suant_, and _Mullet_, are taken with
_Red-Worms_ of all sorts, _Wasps_, and _Gentles_.

The _Grayling_ is next; In _Angling_ for which, you must head your Hook
upon the shank, with a very 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 _Cadbait_, 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 w