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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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.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Bassett ...,
1681.
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Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
Fishes -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32790.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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Artificial Codbait.
You may make for Trouts and Salmon smelts, an Artificial or Counterfeit Cod-bait, by making the body of yellow Bee Wax, and the head of black Silk, and a little dubbing black; This you must be often raising from the bottom and let it sink again, or you may do it by making the body of yellow Wash-Leather, or rather Shammy or Buff, and the head of black Silk. In a muddy water, Trouts will not take the Codbait, therefore only Angle with them in clear waters.
Codbait is a very excellent Bait both for Trout and Grayling, and likewise for other Fish, as Chub, Roch, Dace, Salmon smelts, Pearch, Carp, Tench and Bleak;
* 1.1 if you imitate the Cod-bait with yellow Bee-Wax, and make the head of
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black dubbing, and black silk, and perform the same very artificially, its an in∣comparable Bait for Trouts and Salmon smelts: some make use of a piece of a small yellow Wax Can∣dle to imitate the Cod-bait, and put a dubt head and wings on top of the Hook.
Notes
* 1.1
Some persons make the counterfeit Cod∣bait of yellow Bees-Wax, and an ar∣tificial dubb'd head, and a pair of wings at the head, and An∣gle therewith as at dub-fly.