. The compleat angler. Fishing. ilSC. Good-morrow, good hostess; 1 see my brother Peter is still in bed : come, give my scholar and me a morning drink, and a bit of meat to breakfast; and be sure to get a good dish of meat or two against supper, for we shall come home as hungry as hawks. Come, scholar, ^^ let's be going. Ven. Well now, good master, as we walk towards the river give me direction, according to your promise, how I shall fish for a trout. Pisc. My honest scholar, I will take this very convenient oppor- tunity to do it. The trout is usually caught with a worm or a minnow (which som
. The compleat angler. Fishing. ilSC. Good-morrow, good hostess; 1 see my brother Peter is still in bed : come, give my scholar and me a morning drink, and a bit of meat to breakfast; and be sure to get a good dish of meat or two against supper, for we shall come home as hungry as hawks. Come, scholar, ^^ let's be going. Ven. Well now, good master, as we walk towards the river give me direction, according to your promise, how I shall fish for a trout. Pisc. My honest scholar, I will take this very convenient oppor- tunity to do it. The trout is usually caught with a worm or a minnow (which some call a penk) or with a fly, viz., either a natural or an artificial fly : concerning which three I will give you some observations and directions. And, first, for worms : of these there be very many sorts : some breed only in the earth, as the earth-worm ; others of or amongst plants, as the dung-worm ; and others breed either out of excre- ments, or in the bodies of living creatures, as in the horns of sheep or deer ; or some of dead flesh, as the maggot or gentle, and others. Now these be most of them particularly good for particular fishes : but for the trout, the dew-worm (which some also call the lob-worm) and the brandling are the chief; and especially the first for a great trout, and the latter for a less. There be also of lob-worms some called squirrel-tails (a worm that has a red head, a streak down the back, and a broad tail) which are noted to be the best, because they 103. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687; Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 ed. London ; New York : John Lane
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