The compleat angler being instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream.

CHAP. IV.

PISC.

Why then Sir, to begin methodically, as a Master in any Art should do (and I will not deny, but that I think my self a Ma∣ster in this) I shall divide Angling for Trout or Grayling into these three ways,

• At the Top,
• At the bottom, and
• In the Middle.

Which three ways, though they are all of them (as I shall hereafter endeavour to make it appear) in some sort common to both those kinds of Fish; yet are they not so generally and absolutely so, but that they will necessarily re∣quire a distinction, which in due place I will also give you.

• That whicb we call Angling at the top, is with a Flie;
• At the bottom with a ground-bait.
• In the middle with a Minnow, or Ground-bait.

Angling at the Top is of two sorts,

• With a quick Flie: or,
• With an artificial Flie.

That we call Angling at the bottom is also of two sorts,

• By hand: or
• With a Cork, or Float.

That we call Angling in the middle is also of two sorts.

• With a Minnow for a Trout: or
• With a Ground-bait for a Grayling.

Of all which several sorts of Angling, I will, if you can have the patience to hear me, give you the best account I can.

Viat.

The trouble will be yours, and mine the pleasure and the obligation: I beseech you therefore to proceed.

Pisc.

Why then first of Flie-Fishing.