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.

The yeele speare to take yeeles.

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The Otter Speare.

THe Yéele speare is made with fiue thinne barres, cut in the sides with téeth, to holde that yéele that is within them, and made with thicker and rounder plates aboue to∣ward the socket, which socket must be made strong, and therein put your poale or staffe, which they vse in mudde, riuers, and brookes, to take a dish of yéeles at pleasure: but it is euill to vse the yéele speare whereas there is Teech, or Carpe, for they will commonly lie in the mudde when the water is beaten or troubled, and thereby they may soone be striken and die thereof.

The Otter speare is vsed when a man hunteth the Ot∣ter

in riuers or brookes, when as a man shall chance to sée him vent aboue the water, then to throw the speare at him, which speare hath a line tide at the ende, and a small boxe fastened at the end of the line, that when yee haue stricken him, ye shall the sooner perceiue him where he diueth in the riuer. Or if ye chaunce to finde him lying out of the wa∣ter, there to strike him, and let him go into the water, and so kill him.