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THE SECOND DAY.
(Continued.)
CHAPTER IV.
OF ANGLING FOR TROUT OR GRAYLING, DIVIDED INTO THREE BRANCHES.
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Pisc. junior. Why then, sir, to begin methodically, as a master in any art should do, and I will not deny but that I think myself a master in this: I shall divide angling for trout or grayling, into these three ways: at the top; at the bottom; and in the middle. Which three ways, though they are all of them, as I shall herefter endeavour to make it appear, in some sort common to both these kinds of fish, yet are they not so generally and absolutely so, but that they will necessarily require a distinction; which, in due place, I will also give you.
That which we call angling at the top, is with a fly; at the bottom, with a ground-bait: in the middle, with a minnow, or ground-bait.
Angling at the top is of two sorts: with a quick-fly, or with an artificial-fly.
That we call angling at the bottom, is also of two sorts: by the hand, or with a cork or float.
That we call angling in the middle is also of two sorts: with a minnow for a trout, or with a ground-bait for a grayling.
Of all which several sorts of angling, I will, if you can have the patience to hear me, give you the best account I can.
Viat. The trouble will be yours, and mine the pleasure and the obligation. I beseech you therefore to proceed.
Pisc. Why then first of fly-fishing.
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