How to bobbe for yeeles.
THere is also a taking of yéeles with great wormes drawen through on a long thréede one by an other, and then feulded vp thrée fingers déepe, and then tyde aboue all
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.
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- Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
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- 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 June 17, 2024.
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together, and a bigge string tide thereunto, and fastened bnto a short poale, which ye shall holde in your hand. This is vsed to bobbe at the comming of a floud water, and at the ebbing water of any water that ebbes and flowes. Al∣so it is vsed after a great raine in brookes and running wa∣ters, ye must let your bobbe touch the bottome, and so vp with it softly againe, and so vse it still, and ye shall féele when any yéele doe bite: then pluck it vp not very fast, for then he will forsake the worme he hath hold of, and as soone as he féeles the ayre, he will léese his holde, therefore yée must haue a vessell on the water alwaies readie, that hée may fall therein. Thus much for the bobbing for yéeles.