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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Title: 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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Subject terms: Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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How to nourish your fish in pooles, mayers, and standing waters.

IT is most certaine, the fish which is in riuers, and run∣ning waters, are at more libertie then those which are closed in pondes and pits: for those in running waters, the water bringeth to them alwaies some what to féede on, and there also the small fish doe nourish the great, but the fish inclosed can get no such thing. Therefore it shalbe good to cast vnto them of small fish, and of guts and garbage of fish and of beasts, and figges cut small, and nut curnels broosed, or broosed wheate, wormes, graines of bruinges, white bread, all sortes of salt fishes cut and hackt in small péeces, and such like. If your fish nourish and fat not with these, ye must féede them with the frettes or gubbins of market fish of the fishmongers: if yet they be leane, it shewes plaine they were taken from the seas, which fish are raueners, or they haue come from riuers nigh the seas, but the fish in pondes are restraint from those liberties. Therefore continually they must be fedde.