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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Chetham, James, 1640-1692.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Bassett ...,; 1681.
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Subject terms: Fishing -- Early works to 1800.; Fishes -- Early works to 1800.
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How to bait Worms.

4. But if you Angle in a muddy water for Trouts of the usual size, then have 2 Brandlings or two Meadow-worms, or a Brandling and Giltail on the hook at once, and you are to bait them thus, viz. run the point of the hook in at the very head of the Brandling, and so down through his body till it be past the knot, and then let it out, and strip the Worm above the whipping (that you bruise it not with your fingers) till you have put on the other, by run∣ning the point of the hook in below the knor, and upwards through his body towards the head, till it be just covered with the head, which being thus done, slip the first worm over the arming again, till the knots of both worms meet together. Any 2 Worms may be thus baited.