A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M.
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- A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M.
- Author
- Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Iohn Wolfe, and are to be solde by Edwarde White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne,
- [1590]
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- Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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"A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07166.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 25, 2024.
Contents
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- First the knowledge of angling with the Hooke and Lyne.
- What times best to angle.
- In what wether to angle in.
- Of twelue lets in taking fish.
- To take the Salmon.
- For the Troute.
- For the Grayling.
- For the Barbyll.
- The Carpe.
- The Cheuyn.
- The Breame.
- The Tench.
- To take Pearch.
- The Roche.
- The Dace.
- The Bleke.
- The Ruffe.
- The Flounder.
- The Googing.
- The Menow.
- The Yeele.
- The Pyke.
- The Loch, and the Millers thumbe.
- The manner of feeding and preseruing your quicke baites.
- Baites to last all the yeare.
- Another.
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Baites for fi
eat fishe. - Of twelue kindes of made Flies to angle, for the trout, in Sommer with other fishe.
- First for the dunne Fly.
- The stone Fly.
- The ruddy Fly.
- The yellow Fly.
- The blacke Fly.
- The sad yellow Fly.
- The More Fly.
- The tawny Fly.
- The waspe Fly.
- The shell Fly.
- The darke or drake Fly.
- Here followeth how to couller your lines, to angle with.
- To make yellow haire.
- To make a russet.
- To make a browne couler.
- To make a tawny haire.
- Lines fit for each water.
- Anglers and fishers.
- To order the red worme.
- Here followeth how to make your hookes.
- Now must yee know your hookes, how to angle for euerie kinde of fishe.
- To know how to plumbe your line.
- The manner of laying of hookes.
- Here is how to saue and preserue fish.
- The Herne.
- The Otter.
- Here followeth the Otter Wele.
- For the Water-ratte.
- To preserue spawne in spawning time.
- The manner of way to take Sea-pies.
- Here shall follow the knowledge how to re∣plenish your fish pondes.
- Of clensing your pondes from weedes.
- Here shall be shewed a care of lauing your pondes in sauing the water where it is scant for to saue your fish aliue.
- There is also a care alwayes to maintaine your pits and stuis with fish.
- How to nourish your fish in pooles, mayers, and standing waters.
- Of the taking of fish diuerse wayes.
- Pour Amorcer, or gather Tortues.
- To make it drie.
- To take Loches or small fish.
- Another way.
- To take Perch.
- To take the Samon as well in the Riuer, as in the Sea.
- To take much fish by a light in the night.
- To take Yeeles in the winter in haye or strawe bottles.
- How to breede and increase yeeles in riuers, pondes, and standing waters.
- The Gase for to catch Menowes.
- How to bobbe for yeeles.
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- To breede Millars-thumbes and Loches, in shallow brookes or riuers.
- The breeding of Creuis.
- The Kinges fisher.
- The Cormarant.
- The Dobchicke.
- The More-coore or bauld Coote kils fish also.
- The making of a water lime, a verie good and a perfect way.
- The Ospray.
- The tempering of bird-lime, and it will serue also well in water.
- Lime made of Misteltoo.
- A pretie way to take a Pye.
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- A hutch to take Polcats, as also other Vermin.
- A latch trappe for the water Ratte, to be made of borde with a hole pinde against the Ratte∣hole in the banke of brookes, pooles, or riuers.
- This is called the dead-fall for Polcats, or other Vermine.
- The latch or Foxe trap.
- This latch is to set against a banke or other hill side.
- The latch trappe.
- The foote trappe.
- The Wolfes trappe.
- The kragge hooke.
- The Hare pipe.
- The whippe or spring trappe.
- The double trappe to take Rattes or Mice.
- A trappe or fall for Buzardes, and Kytes, with a hurdell.
- The Basket fall.
- The Iay trappe to set about corne fields, or orchards.
- The bow trappe for Rats or other Vermine.
- The bowe trappe set.
- The Dragin trappe for Mice or Rattes.
- The fall for Rats or other vermine.
- The boxe trappe.
- The spring trappe for Mice.
- The dragin trappe with a great wyar.
- The Samson poste for Rattes.
- A Mill to take Mice.
- The square mouce trappe.
- To take the Buzard with three twigs limed.
- The Moull trappe.
- The following trappe.
- The griping trappe made all of yrne, the lowest barre, and the ring or hoope, with two clickets, and a turning pinne, which ring is set fast to the sides of the lowest barre,
- Here is more with two springs vntylde on both sides, in holding together the two hoopes with nayles.
- The square boxe trappe.
- A spring for a Buzard or Dunkite.
- The hoope nette for the Buzard, set against some bush in a plaine or open place.
- The order for setting and drawing the chaffe nette, for Crowes and Sparrowes, as hereafter shall be declared.
- A baite to kill Rattes and Mice.
- Another compound for Rattes.
- An other way for the same.
- A baite for Mice.
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Another to kill Mice.
. Dioscorides. - An other for Mice.
- An other for Rats, Mice, Woolfes, or Foxes.
- To take Rauens, Pyes, and Crowes.
- The spring net for Buzard or other kind of foule.