A booke of fishing with hooke and line . ithin them, and made with thicker and rounder platesaboue toward the socket, which socket must be made strong, and therein put yourpoale or stafFe, which they vse in mudde, riuers, and brookes, to take a dish ofyeeles at pleasure: but it is euill to vse the yeele speare whereas there is Teech[Tench], or Carpe, for they will commonly lie in the mudde when the water is beatenor troubled, and thereby they may soone be striken and die thereof. The Otter speare is vsed when a man hunteth the Otter in riuers or brookes,when as a man shall chance to see him ve
A booke of fishing with hooke and line . ithin them, and made with thicker and rounder platesaboue toward the socket, which socket must be made strong, and therein put yourpoale or stafFe, which they vse in mudde, riuers, and brookes, to take a dish ofyeeles at pleasure: but it is euill to vse the yeele speare whereas there is Teech[Tench], or Carpe, for they will commonly lie in the mudde when the water is beatenor troubled, and thereby they may soone be striken and die thereof. The Otter speare is vsed when a man hunteth the Otter in riuers or brookes,when as a man shall chance to see him vent aboue the water, then to throw thespeare at him, which speare hath a line tide at the ende, and a small boxe fastenedat the end of the line, that when yee haue stricken him, ye shall the sooner perceiuehim where he diueth in the riuer. Or if ye chaunce to finde him lying out of thewater, there to strike him, and let him go into the water, and so kill him. 42 A Booke To breede Millars-thitmbcs and LocJies, in shallowbrookes or The fishes called Loches, and the other called Millars-thumbes or Culles, theyalwayes feede in the bottome of brookes, and riuers. They are fish holesome to beeaten of feeble persons hauing an ague, or other sicknesse. These fish delight to bein sandie grauell in riuers and brookes, and they are very easie to be taken withsmall trauell, in remouing the stones where they lie vnder, for they cannot swimfast away. Therefore in certaine shallow riuers and brookes, they do vse to breede,and saue them ye may inlaying round heapes of pebble stones or flint, in shallowplaces of the saide riuers and brookes, halfe a foote deepe of water or lesse. Likeas there is a shallow riuer running from Barcamstede to Chestum, and so to Chaue :also by Croydon and other places, wherein they might breede of the saide fishgreat store, if they were so giuen. The like riuer runnes in Hampeshiere by sidesAltum, increasing by diuerse springes, and runnes shallow in many pl
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