The angler's vade mecum, or, A compendious, yet full, discourse of angling discovering the aptest methods and ways ... for the catching all manner of fresh-water fish ... : together with a brief discourse of fish ponds, and not only the easiest but most palatable ways of dressing all sorts of fish ... / by a lover of angling.

Baits.

4. He'l take almost any fort of bait; but his best baits are seven eyes, and Eel brood, each about thickness of a Straw, also the Red-worm and Dew-worm well scowred, the Earth-bob, and brains of an Ox or Cow, Cheefe, Paste, and the Pith or Marrow of an Ox or Cows back bone, tenderly and carefully take off the outward tough skin, and be sure you leave the inward and tender white skin fase and un∣touched, or your labour is lost, which are very good baits for the cooler months. In the hot months he takes all sort of baits bred on Trees or Herbs; especially the Oak-worm, Crab-tree worm, Palmers, Catterpillars, Cod-baits, Gen∣tles, the young brood of Wasps, Horners and Humble Bees, Beetles their Legs cut off, Dores, Grashoppers, Clap-baits, white Snails and black Snails their belly slit that the white appear, these Snails he takes very early in the morning, but not in the heat of the day. He likewise takes Lip-berries, Colewort worm, Cabbage-worm, Fern fly, and likewise a Moth with a

great head like an Owl, with whitish wings and a yellow body, they fly abroad in Summers evenings in Gardens; he loves a large bait, as a Wasp and a Colewort worm, and then a Wasp all on the hook at a time, and he would have divers fort of Flies on at once, and a Fly and a Cod-bait or Oak-worm together. He'l likewise take the great brown fly, which lives on an Oak like a scarabe.