them to move cross a _Pond_ or _Mere_, you are like
to stand still on the shoar and see sport, if there be any store of
_Pikes_; or these live baits may make sport, being tied about the body
or wings of a _Goose_ or _Duck_, and she chased over a Pond: and the
like may be done with turning three or four live baits thus fastened to
bladders, or boughs, or bottles of hay, or flags, to swim down a
_River_, whilst you walk quietly on the shore along with them, and are
still in expectation of sport. The rest must be taught you by practice,
for time will not alow me to say more of this kind of fishing with live
baits.

And for your dead bait for a _Pike_, for that you may be taught by one
dayes going a fishing with me or any other body that fishes for him,
for the baiting your hook with a dead _Gudgion_ or a _Roch_, and moving
it up and down the water, is too easie a thing to take up any time to
direct you to do it; and yet, because I cut you short in that, I will
commute for it, by telling you that that was told me for a secret: it
is this:

_Dissolve _Gum of Ivie_ in Oyle of _Spike_, and therewith annoint your
dead bait for a _Pike_, and then cast it into a likely place, and when
it has layen a short time at the bottom, draw it towards the top of the
water, and so up the stream, and it is more then likely that you have
a _Pike_ follow you with more then common eagerness._

This has not been tryed by me, but told me by a friend of note, that
pretended to do me a courtesie: but if this direction to catch a _Pike_
thus do you no good, I am certaine this direction how to roste him when
he is caught, is choicely good, for I have tryed it, and it is somewhat
the better for not being common; but with my direction you must take
this Caution, that your Pike must not be a smal one.

_First open your _Pike_ at the gills, and if need be, cut also a little
slit towards his belly; out of these, take his guts, and keep his
liver, which you are to shred very small with _Time_, _Sweet Margerom_,
and a little _Winter-Savoury_; to these put some pickled _Oysters_,
and some _Anchovis_, both these last whole (for the _Anchovis_ will
melt, and the _Oysters_ should not) to these you must add also a pound
of sweet _Butter_, which you are to mix with the herbs that are shred,
and let them all be well salted (if the _Pike_ be more then a yard
long, then you may put into these herbs more then a pound, or if he be
less, then less _Butter_ will suf