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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To take Loches or small fish.

TAke the branne of wheate meale, two pound, of lenten pease, halfe a pound, mixe them together, and beate them with a sufficient quantitie of brine, and put thereto halfe a pound of sessame. Then shall ye part it in péeces, and throw them here and there: for as soone as ye haue thrown it in the water, all the small fish will come vnto it, and re∣maine in one place, although they be 300. paces off. Also ye may take the bloud of an Oxe, Goate, Shéepe or of a Hogge, with the dung that is in the small guts of them. Also of time, peniryall, léekes, sauerie, margerum, garlick, with the lées of good wine, of each in like, with the grease or marow of the saide beastes, so much as ye séeme good: beate them a part, and then mixe them a like together, and so make small pellets thereof, and cast it where ye will haue the fish to come an houre before ye cast in your lines: or else take the bloud of a blacke Goate, the lées of good wine, of barley meale, all in like portion: beate them all together with the lites of a Goate, and then cut them in small péeces and make pellets thereof, and so vse them as aboue sayde.