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IF you will haue profite of your fish, in your pondes and pooles, ye must haue a care alwayes to clense them from thrée yeare to thrée yeare, in taking away all wéedes, ru∣shes, and flagges, for they doe greatly stuffe and trouble
the fish, and makes them to be more slymie, and of a wor∣ser taste. Likewise ye must sée alwayes for Otters and Water-rats, haunting your pondes and pooles: yee shall best know if there be any in the night season, for then they hunt abroad for fish: then séeke to take them by such means as afore mentioned, which else they will soone destroy all your fish. Also it is not good to suffer any to shute with guns nie your ponds or riuers, for it feares and astonish the fish greatly, and worst of all in spawning tune, and many will die ••••ereof: ye may watch the haunt of the Ot∣ter and Ratte, and strike them if yee can with the trowte speare, which is a very good thing to kill them, if it be well done, for so many haue béene kilde.