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A62402	The true art of angling, or, The best and speediest way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish with the worm, fly paste, and other baits, in their proper seasons how to know the haunts of fish, and angle for them in all waters and weathers, at the top, middle, and bottom, baiting of the ground, and night baits, oyls, and oyntments, baits natural and atificial : the several ways of angling, to make oyl of asper, and many rare secrets never before made publick, containing the whole body of angling, and mystery of a compleat angler / by J.S., gent., an brother of the angle.	J. S. (John Smith)	1696 (1696)	Wing S96; ESTC R32405	37,331	170

Artificially with Isabella coloured Mohair and bright brown Bears-hair wrapped on yellow Silk These being the Principal Flies used in Angling I now come to mixed Baits of another Nature Miscellaena of Baits Very Taking and much in use 1. SAlmon Spawn b●iled and fastned on the Hook is a very good Bait for Chub and in some Rivers for Tro●t it being advantageous to the Angler especially in Winter and Spring if he keeps it salted especially in places where Salmon used to Spawn for thither the Fish gather to expect it 2. Grashoppers the latter end of June all July and August if their Legs and outward Wing be taken off especially fo Roach Trout and Grayling an here you may put a slende plate of Lead on the shank 〈◊〉 your hook slenderest at th● bent then draw your Grashop over it after put a lesser Grashopper or Cod-bait at the point and keep it moving lifting up and sinking again a Chub will also take the Bait freely and so will a Tro●t if you dib with it 3. The Water-Cricket Water ●●use or Creeper is but one these take Trout in March and April and sometimes in May if you Angle at the River it is to be Angled with in Clear Water within a foot of the bottom some let it drag on the ground This Creeper is bred in Stoney Rivers and held to turn into a Stone-fly about the middle of May that Fly not being any where seen before Lamery Pride or Seaven is a very good Bait for Chub and Eels Night or Day this is no other than little live things like small Eels no thicker than a Straw and are to be found in Sandy Muddy heaps near to the Shoar in Rivers Snails the Black and White are good Baits for Chub very early in the Morning Trout and Eels take them on Night hooks but the Bellies of the black may be slit so that the white may appear some dib for Chub with House-Crickets For Chub Barb●l Roach and Dace you may Angle with Cheese or Oat Cake especially at the Ledger Bait the Cheese you may wrap up two or three days in a wet Linnen Cloath or moisten it over with Honey and Water Black-berries Mul-berries Cherries or Ra●berries take the Chub in Ponds or Rivers Lip-berries or Aron-berries being when ripe of a transparent red found in dry Ditches or dry Banks fit for use in July and August two of these on a hook will take a Roach and four a Chub. As for the P●ke he is a greedy Devourer and therefore mostly delights in Fish Frogs c. therefore your Baits for him must be small Dace Minows Roach Salmon Smelt Gudgeon Bleak Millers-thumb small Pearch with the back fins out off also Tro●t and Eels well scowred in Wheat-Bran to take away the Sli●●e and indeed most sort of small Fish he takes and how you are to manage them on your hook I shall tell you when I come to treat of the taking him in the River of Tham's Periwinckle a kind of Water-Snall is much used for Roach being taken whole out of its Shell Shrimps taken out of their Husk or Shell may be used as a Bait for Pike or Chub. The White-bl●te with much Seed by some called All-seed is a proper Bait for Fish Pastes proper for the Angler PAstes are of several kinds though tending to one and the same end for a Ch●b or Chevin make a Paste of the fattest Old Cheese the Suet of a Mutton Kidney a little strong Runnet mix them equally and finely together then put as much Powder of Turmerick as will give them a fine Yellow Colour For Roach and Dace Grate fine Bread into a little fair Water wherein Gum-Ivy has been soaked For the Barbel in August make a Paste of New Cheese and Mutton Suet. For Roach or Dace you may put a little Butter to your Crumbbait and Colour it with Saffron For Carp or Tench mix crumbs of Bread with Hony though for a Carp I reckon this the surest Take Bean Flower or for want of it Wheat-flower the inside of the Leg of a young Rabbit Catlin or Whelp white Bees-wax and Sheeps Suet proportionable beat them in a Morter till well Incorporated then moisten the Mass with clarified Honey and work it up into little Balls before a gentle fire The Chub in Winter takes a paste made of strong Cheshire Cheese beaten with Butter and Saffron till it become a Lemon colour Stoned Cherries fine grated Manchet Sheeps Blood and Saffron make a good Paste for Roach Dace Bleak Chub Trout Pearch and for the Chub only put a little Rusty Bacon in it Another excellent Paste is made of the fattest Old Cheese Mutton Kidney-Suet strong Rennet Anniseed Water Wheat Flower and the dripping of Rusty Bacon held against the Fire What is to be observed in Angling with Pasts 1. YOU must proportion the quantity of your Paste you put on your hook to the smallness or largeness of the Fish you Angle for as in other Baits 2. You may try Oils upon any of these Pasts and as you see your success so continue the one or the other and the best for this purpose are Oil of Polipody of the Oak Oil of Petre Oil of Ivy and as properly Gum of Ivy and Assafoetida 3. To strengthen any Past and so prevent its washing off the Hook it will not be amiss to beat a small quantity of fine Flax cut short Cotton Wool or fine Lint among them which will prove very binding those that you would have keep long put a little White Bees wax into them and anoint them with clarified Honey the latter you may wipe off when you use occasion 4. Paste or tender Baits must not be Angled with in Rapid Streams but on a small hook in Pits Ponds Meers or slow Running Rivers your Eye in this sort of Angling must be quick your Rod somewhat stiff and a nimble hand to pull up or else the Bait and Fish will quickly bid you farewell This is better done with a Quill float than a Cork which sooner shews the Nibble or Bite and if you then be not very quick your labour is lost and with these Pasts success is usually had for Bream Bleak Chub Roach Dace Carp Tench Barbel Oils and Ointments useful in Angling TAke Oil of Ivy-berries anoint the inside of an Oaken Box with it and put three or four Worms or other live Baits into the Box shutting i● close but keep them not there too long least the strength of the Oil kill them but take these out and put in more and so they being scented with the Oil it will allure the Fish the more readily to take them This may be done in the same manner for want of Oil with Gum-Ivy which is a Tear that flows out of the Ivy Stalks when slit or wounded by peircing Oil of Spike and dissolved Gum Ivy are held to be much attracting the Bait being anointed with them Oil of Polypodi of the Oak Venice Turpentine and new Honey is