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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Art of Angling + Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary + to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation + +Author: Thomas Barker + +Release Date: July 24, 2008 [EBook #26116] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ART OF ANGLING *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan and The Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<h3><i>The Art of</i></h3> + +<h1>ANGLING.</h1> + +<h3>WHEREIN</h3> + +<h2>Are discovered many rare Secrets,<br /> +very necessary to be knowne<br /> +<span class="f1">by all that delight in<br /> +that Recreation.</span></h2> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/image_01.jpg" width="300" height="292" alt="Decorative Image" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h3><i>LONDON,</i></h3> + +<h3>Printed in the Yeare 1653.</h3> + + +<h4>ONLY ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED.</h4> + +<h5>Reprinted by Inchbold and Gawtress, Leeds.<br /> + +1817.</h5> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/image_02.jpg" width="600" height="94" alt="Decorative Image" /> +</div> + +<h2><i>The Art of Angling.</i></h2> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/image_03.jpg" width="100" height="103" alt="R" /> +</div> + +<p>eader: I will complement, and put a case to you. I met with a man, +and upon our Discourse he fell out with me: this man having a good +weapon, having neither wit, stomack, nor skill; I say this man may +come home by <i>Totnam-high-Cross</i>, and cause the Clerk to tole his +knell: It is the very like case with the Gentleman Angler that goeth +to the River for his pleasure: this Angler hath neither judgment, +knowledge, nor experience; he may come home light laden at his +pleasure.</p> + +<p>A man that goeth to the River for his pleasure, must understand, when +he cometh there, to set forth his Tackles. The first thing he must do, +is to observe the Sun, the Wind, the Moon, the Starres, and the Wanes +of the Air; to set forth his Tackles according to the times and +seasons; to goe for his pleasure, and some profit.</p> + +<p>As for example, the Sun proves cloudy; then must he set forth either +his ground Bait or Tackles, and of the brightest of his Flies. If the +Sun prove bright, then must he put on some of the darkest of his +flies. Thus must you goe to work with your Flies, light for darkness, +and dark for lightness, with the wind in the South, then that blows +the Flie in the Trouts mouth. Though I set down the wind being in the +South, if the weather be warm, I am indifferent where the wind +standeth, either with ground Bait or Menow, so that I can cast my Bait +into the River. The very same observations is for night, as for day: +For if the Moon prove cleer, or if the Stars glitter in the skie, +there is as ill Angling that night, as if it were at high noon in the +midst of Summer, when the Sun shineth at the brightest, wherein there +is no hopes of pleasure.</p> + +<p>I will begin to Angle for the Trout, with the ground Baits with this +quality.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> + +<p>The first thing you must gaine, must be a neat taper Rod, light +before, with a tender hazell top, which is very gentle. If you desire +to attain my way of Angling, (for I have Angled these forty years) +with a single haire of five lengths, one tied to another for the +bottom of my Line, and a Line of three haired links for the uppermost +part; and so you may kill the greatest Trout that swims, with +Sea-room.</p> + +<p>He that Angles with a Line made of three haired links at the bottom, +and more at the top, may kill Fish: but he that Angles with one hair +shall kill five Trouts to the others one; for the Trout is very quick +sighted; therefore the best way for night or day, is to keep out of +the sight. You must Angle alwayes with the point of your Rod downe the +stream; for a Fish hath not the quickness of sight so perfect up the +stream, as opposite against him, observing seasonable times; as for +example, we begin to Angle in <i>March</i>; If it prove cloudie, you may +Angle with the ground Baits all day long: but if it prove bright and +cleere, you must take the morning and evening, or else you are not +like to do any good; so the times must be observed, and truely +understood; for when an Angler commeth to the River for his pleasure +that doth not understand to set forth his Tackles fit for the time, it +is as good keep them in the bag, as set them forth.</p> + +<p>I am determined to Angle with the ground Baits and set my Tackles to +my Rod, and go to my pleasure: I begin at the uppermost part of the +streame, carrying my Line with an upright hand, feeling the Plummet +running on the ground some ten inches from the hook, plumming my Line +according to the swiftnesse of the stream you Angle in; for one +plummet will not serve for all streams; for the true Angling is that +the plummet runneth on the ground.</p> + +<p>For the Bait. The red knotted worme is very good where Brandlins are +not to be had, but Brandlins are better: now that you may bring these +Brandlings fit to Angle with, that they may live long on the hook, +which causeth the best sport. When you have gathered your worms out of +the dung-hill, you must gaine the greenest Moss you can find, then +wash the earth very clean out of it, then provide an earthen pot, so +put your Moss into the pot, then put the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> worms to the Moss into +the pot; within two days you shall find your worms so poor, that if +you bait some of them on your hook, you shall see that with throwing +of them two or three times into the water, they will dye and grow +white: now the skill is, when these worms be grown poor, you must feed +them up to make them fat and lusty, that they may live long on the +hook; that is the chiefest point.</p> + +<p>To make them lusty and fat, you must take the yolke of an Egge, some +eight or ten spoonfull of the top of new milk, beaten well together in +a Porringer, warm it a little, untill you see it curdle; then take it +off the fire, and set it to coole; when it is cold, take a spoonfull +and drop it upon your Moss into the pot, every drop about the bignesse +of a green Pea, shifting your Moss twice in the week in the Summer, +and once in the winter: thus doing, you shall feed your wormes fat, +and make them lusty, that they will live a long time on the hook; so +you may keep them all the year long. This is my true experience for +the ground Baits, for the running Line for the Trout.</p> + +<p>The Angling with a Menow, called in some places Pencks for a Trout, is +a pleasant sport, and killeth the greatest Fish; he commeth boldly to +the Bait, as if it were a Mastive Dog at a Beare: you may Angle with +greater Tackles, and stronger, and be no prejudice to you in your +Angling: a Line made of three silks and three hairs twisted for the +uppermost part of the Line, and two silkes and two haires twisted for +the bottome next your hook, with a Swivel nigh the middle of your +Line, with an indifferent large hook.</p> + +<p>To bait your hook with a Menow, you must put your hook through the +lowermost part of his mouth, so draw your hook thorow, then put the +hook in at the mouth againe, let the point of the hook come out at the +hindmost Fin, then draw your Line, and the Menowes mouth will close, +that no water will get into its belly; you must alwayes be Angling +with the point of your Rod down the stream, with drawing the Menow up +the stream by little and little, nigh the top of the water; the Trout +seeing the bait, commeth at it most fiercely, so give a little time +before you strike: This is the true way, without Lead; for many times +I have had them come at the Lead and forsake the Menow, so he +that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> tryeth shall prove it in time: let us go to Angling with a +Flie, which is a delightfull sport.</p> + +<p>The Rod must be light and tender, if you can fit yourselfe with an +Hazell, either of one piece or two set together in the most convenient +manner, light and gentle: set your Line to the Rod; for the uppermost +part, you may use your owne discretion; for the lower part, next your +Flie, must be of three or foure haired links. If you can attain to +Angle with one haire, you shall have the more rises, and kill more +fish; be sure you doe not over-load yourself with the length of your +Line: before you begin to Angle, make a triall, having the winde in +your back to see at what length you can cast your Flie, that the Flie +light first into the water, and no longer; for if any of the Line +falleth into the water before the Flie, it is better unthrowne then +throwne; be sure you be casting alwayes downe the stream, with the +Wind behinde you, and the Sun before; it is a speciall point to have +the Sunne and Moon before you; for the very motion of the Rod drives +all the pleasure from you, either by day or night in all your +Anglings, both for Wormes and Flies; so there must bee a great care of +that.</p> + +<p>Let us begin to Angle in <i>March</i> with the Flie: If the weather prove +Windie, or Cloudie, there are severall kindes of Palmers that are good +for that time.</p> + +<p>First, a black Palmer ribbed with silver: the second, a black Palmer +with an Orange-tauny body: thirdly, a black Palmer, with the body made +all of black: fourthly, a red Palmer ribbed with gold, and a red +hackle mixed with Orenge cruel; these Flies serve all the year long +morning and evening, windie and cloudie. Then if the Aire prove bright +and cleare, you must imitate the Hauthorn Flie, which is all black and +very small, and the smaller the better. In <i>May</i> take the <i>May</i>-flie: +imitate that, which is made severall wayes; some make them with a +shammy body, ribbed with a black haire: another way made with +Sandy-Hogges wooll, ribbed with black silke, and winged with a +Mallards feather, according to the fancy of the Angler. There is +another called the Oak-Flie, which is made of Orange colour Cruell and +black, with a browne wing; imitate that: Another Flie, the body made +with the strain of a Pea-Cocks<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> feather, which is very good in a +bright day: The Grasse-hopper which is green imitate that; the smaller +the Flies be made, and of indifferent small hooks, they are the +better; these sorts I have set downe, will serve all the year long, +observing the times and seasons: Note, the lightest of your Flies for +cloudy and darknesse, and the darkest of your Flies for lightnesse, +and the rest for indifferent times; that a mans owne Judgement, with +some experience and discretion must guide him: If he mean to kill +Fish, he must alter his Flies according to these directions. Now, of +late, I have found, that Hogs-wooll, of severall colours, makes good +grounds; and the wooll of a red Heyfer makes a good body: And Bears +wool makes a good ground; so I now work much of them, and it procureth +very much sport.</p> + +<p>The naturall Flie is sure Angling, and will kill great store of Trouts +with much pleasure: As for the May-Flie, you shall have them always +playing at the River side, especially against Raine. The Oake-Flie is +to bee had on the butt of an Oake, or an Ash, from the beginning of +<i>May</i> to the end of <i>August</i>: it is a brownish Flie, and stands +alwayes with his head towards the root of the tree, very easie to be +found: The small black Flie is to be had one evry Hawthorn Bush, after +the buds be come forth: Your Grasse-hopper, which is green, is to be +had in any Medow of Grasse in <i>June</i> or <i>July</i>: with these Flies, you +must Angle with such a Rod as you Angle with the ground Bait; the Line +must not be so long as the Rod: with drawing your flie, as you finde +convenient in your Angling. When you come to deep waters that stand +somewhat still, make your Line some two yards long, or thereabout, and +dop your Flie behinde a bush, which Angling I have had good sport at; +we call it doping.</p> + +<p>A Lord lately sent to me at Sun going down, to provide him a good dish +of Trouts against the next morning by six of the Clock: I went to the +door to see how the wains of the Aire were like to prove, and returned +answer, that I doubted not but to be provided (God willing) at my time +appointed. I went presently to the River, and it proved very dark; I +drew out a Line of three silkes and three hairs twisted for the +uppermost part, and a Line of two silks and two<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> hairs twisted +for the lowermost part, with a good large hook: I baited my hook with +two Lob-worms, the four ends hanging as meet as I could ghesse them in +the dark: I fell to Angle; it proved very dark, that I had good sport, +Angling with the Lob-worms, as I doe with the Flie, at the top of the +water; you shall heare the Fish rise at the top of the water; then you +must loose a slack Line down to the bottome, as nigh as you can +ghesse, then hold a straight Line; feeling the Fish bite, give time, +there is no doubt of losing the Fish; for there is not one among +twenty, but doth gorge the Bait: the least stroak you can strike to +fasten the hook, makes the fish sure, and then you may take the fish +up with your hands: The night began to alter and grew somewhat +lighter; I took off the Lob-worms, and set to my Rod a white Palmer +Flie, made of a large hook, I had sport for the time, till it grew +lighter; then I put on my red Palmer, I had sport for the time untill +it grew very light; then I set on my black Palmer, had good sport, +made up my dish of fish, put up my Tackles, and was at my time +appointed for the service. For these three Flies, with the help of the +Lob-worms, serve to Angle all the year long, observing the times, as I +have shewed in this nights work: a light Flie for darknes, the red +Flie <i>in medio</i>, and a dark Flie for lightnesse: This is my experiment +for this kind of Angling, which is the surest Angling of all, and +killeth the greatest Fish: your Lines may be strong, but must be no +longer than the Rod.</p> + +<p>To take a Carp either in Pond or River, if you mean to have sport with +some profit, you must take a peck of Ale-graines, and a good quantity +of any bloud, and mix the bloud and graines together, and cast it in +the places where you meane to Angle; this feed will gather the scale +Fish together, as Carp, Tench, Roach, Dace, and Bream; the next +morning be at your sport very early, plum your ground: you may Angle +for the Carp with a strong Line; the Bait must be either a red knotted +worm, or Paste: there is no doubt of sport.</p> + +<p>To take Pearch. The Pearch feeds well, if you light where they be, and +bites very free: My opinion is, (with some experience) to bait with +Lob-worms, chopt in pieces<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> over night; so come in the morning +betimes, plum your ground, gage your line, bait your hook with a red +knotted worme; but I hold a Menow better: put the hook in at the back +of the Menow, betwixt the fish and the skin, that the Menow may swim +up and down alive, being boyed up with a Cork or Quill, that the Menow +may have liberty to swimme a foot off the ground: there is no doubt of +sport with profit.</p> + +<p>I will shew, a little, my opinion of floating for scale fish in the +River or Pond: The feed brings the Fish together, as the sheep to the +Pen: There is nothing better in all your Anglings, for feed, then +Bloud and Grains; I hold it better then Paste: then plumming your +ground, Angling with fine Tackles, as single haire for halfe the Line +next the hook, round and small plumed, according to your float: For +the Bait, there is a small red worm, with a yellow tip on his taile, +is very good; Brandlins, Gentles, Paste, or Cadice, which we call +Cod-bait, they lye in a gravelly husk under stones in the River: these +be the speciall Baits for these kinde of Fish.</p> + +<p>One of my name was the best Trouler, for a Pike, in this Realme: he +laid a wager, that he would take a Pike of four foot long, of Fish, +within the space of one Moneth, with his Trouling-Rod; so he Trouled +three weeks and odde days, and took many great Pikes, nigh the length, +but did not reach the full length, till within the space of three +dayes of the time; then he took one, and won the wager. The manner of +his Trouling was, with a Hazell Rod of twelve foot long, with a Ring +of Wyre in the top of his Rod, for his Line to runne thorow: within +two foot of the bottome of the Rod there was a hole made, for to put +in a winde, to turne with a barrell, to gather up his Line, and loose +at his pleasure; this was his manner of Trouling: But I will pawn my +credit, that I will shew a way, either in Maior, Pond, or River, that +shall take more Pikes than any Trouler with his Rod: And thus it is. +First, take forked stick, a Line of twelve yards long wound upon it, +at the upper end, leave about a yard, either to tye a bunch of Sags, +or a Bladder, to Boy up the Fish, and to carry it from the ground: the +Bait must be a live Fish, either Dace,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> or Gudgin, or Roach, or +a small Trout: the forked stick must have a slit in the one side of +the fork to put in the Line, that you may set your live Fish to swimme +at a gage, that when the Pike taketh the Bait, he may have the full +liberty of the Line for his feed.</p> + +<p>You may turne these loose, either in Pond or River: in the Pond with +the winde all day long, the more the better: at night set some small +weight, as may stay the Boy, as a Ship lyeth at Anchor, till the Fish +taketh. For the River, you must turn all loose with the streame; two +or three be sufficient to shew pleasure, gaged at such a depth as they +will go currant downe the River; there is no doubt of sport, if there +be Pikes: for the hooks, they must be doubled hooks, the shanks should +be somewhat shorter than ordinary: my reason is, the shorter the hook +is of the shank, it will hurt the live Fish the lesse, and must be +armed with small wyre well softned; but I hold a hook armed with +twisted silk to be better, for it will hurt the live fish least.</p> + +<p>If you arm your hook with wyre, the neeld must be made with a small +hook at the one end thereof. If you arme with silke, the neeld must be +made with an eye: then must you take one of those Baits alive (which +you can get) and with one of your neelds enter within a strawes breath +of the Gill of the Fish, so put the neeld betwixt the skin and the +Fish; then pull the neeld out at the hindmost finne, and draw the +arming thorow the Fish, until the hook come to lye close to the Fishes +bodie: But I hold for those that be armed with wyre to take off the +hook, and put the neeld in the hindmost fin and so to come forth at +the Gill; then put on the hook drawn close to the body, 'twill hurt +the live Fish the less, so knit the arming with the live Fish to the +Line; then put off either in Maior or Pond, with the winde, in the +River with the stream: The more you put off in Maior or Pond, you are +like to have the more pleasure: For the River I have shewed you +before.</p> + +<p>There is a time when Pikes goe a Frogging Ditches, and in the River to +Sun them, as in May, June and July, there is a speedy way to take +them, and not to misse scarce one in twenty.</p> + +<p>You must take a Line of six or eight foot long, arm +a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> large hook, +of the largest size +that is made; arm it to your Line, lead the shank of your hook very +handsom, that it may be of such a weight as you may guide the hook at +your pleasure: you may strike the Pike, you see, with the bare hook +where you please: this Line and hook doth far exceed snaring.</p> + +<p>The principall sport to take a Pike, is to take a Goose or Gander, or +Duck: take one of the Pike Lines I have shewed you before: tye the +Line under the left wing, and over the right wing, about the body, as +a man weareth his Belt: turne the Goose off into a Pond, where <i>Pikes</i> +are, there is no doubt of sport, with great pleasure, betwixt the +Goose and the <i>Pike</i>: It is the greatest sport and pleasure that a +noble Gentleman in <i>Shropshire</i> doth give his friends entertainment +with.</p> + +<p>The way to make the best paste is, Take, a reasonable quantity of +fresh Butter, as much fresh sheeps Suet, a reasonable quantity of the +strongest Cheese you can get, with the soft of an old stale white +loafe; beat all this in a Morter till it come to perfect paste; put as +much on your hook as a green pease.</p> + +<p>There are many wayes to take Eeles: I will shew you a good way to take +a dish of Eeles. When you stay a night or two Angling, take four or +five Lines, such as be laid for <i>Pikes</i>, of fourteen or fifteen yards +long, and at every two yards make a noose, to hang a hook armed either +to double thred, or silk twist; for it is better then wyre: Bait your +Hooks with Millors-thumbs, Loaches, Menowes, or Gudgins: tye to every +noose a Line baited: these Lines must be laid crosse the River in the +deepest places, either with stones, or pegged, so the Line lie in the +bottome of the river, there is no doubt of taking a dish of Eeles; you +must have a small neeld with an eye, to bait your hooks.</p> + +<p>Now to shew how to make Flies: learn to make two Flies, and make all: +that is, the Palmer ribbed with silver or gold, and the May-flie: +these are the ground of all Flies.</p> + +<p>We will begin to make the Palmer Flie: You must arme your Line on the +inside of the hook; take your Scisers, and cut so much of the brown of +the Mallards feather, as in your owne reason shall make the wings, +then lay the outmost<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> part of the feather next the hook, and +the point of the feather towards the shanke of the hook, then whip it +three or four times about the hook with the same silk you armed the +hook: then make your silk fast: then you must take the hackle of the +neck of a Cock or Capon, or a Plovers top, which is the best, take off +the one side of the feather, then you must take the hackle silk, or +cruell, gold or silver thred; make all these fast at the bent of the +hook, then you must begin with Cruell, and Silver, or Gold, and work +it up to the wings, every bout shifting your fingers, and making a +stop, then the gold will fall right, then make fast: then work up the +hackle to the same place, then make the hackle fast: then you must +take the hook betwixt your finger and thumb, in the left hand, with a +neeld or pin, part the wings in two: then with the arming silk, as you +have fastned all hitherto, whip about as it falleth crosse betwixt the +wings, then with your thumb you must turne the point of the feather +towards the bent of the hook, then work three or four times about the +shank, so fasten, then view the proportion.</p> + +<p>For the other Flies: If you make the grounds of Hogs-wooll, sandy, +black or white; or the wooll of a Bear, or of a two year old red +Bullock: you must work all these grounds upon a waxed silk, then you +must arm and set on the wings, as I have shewed before: For the +May-flie, you work the body with some of these grounds, which is very +good, ribbed with a black hair; you may work the body with Cruels, +imitating the Colour, or with Silver, with suiting the wings. For the +Oak-flie, you must make him with Orange-tauny and black, for the body, +and the brown of the Mallards feather for the wings. If you do after +my directions, they will kill fish, observing the times fitting, and +follow my former Directions.</p> + +<p>If any worthy or honest Angler cannot hit of these my Directions, let +him come to me, he shall read and I will work, he shall see all things +done according to my foresaid Directions: So I conclude for the Flie, +having shewed you my true Experiments, with the Rod, I will set all +labouring sports aside:</p> + +<p>And now I am waiting on my Lord with a great Dish of Trouts, who +meeting with company, commanded me to turne Scullion and dresse a +Dinner of the Trouts wee<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> had taken: whereupon I gave my Lord +this Bill of fare, which I did furnish his Table with, according as it +was furnished with flesh. Trouts in broth, which is restorative: +Trouts broyled, cut and filled with sweet Herbes chopt: Trouts +calvored hot with Antchovaes sauce: Trouts boyled; out of which Kettle +I make three Dishes; the one for a Soused Dish, another for a Stew'd +Dish, the third for a hot Dish: the Sauce is Butter, Vinegar, beaten +Cinamon, with the juyce of a Lemmon, beaten very well together, that +the Sauce is white and thick, or else it is no Sauce for a great man's +Table: Trouts fryed, which must be done, and not put into the Pan, +untill the Suet boyle very high, and kept with stirring all the time +they are frying, being flowr'd first. Trouts stew'd: Trouts close, +boyled with the calvored Trouts, all in one Kettle and the same +liquor: Trouts butter'd with Egs: Trouts roasted: Trouts baked: these +are for the first course, before the Salt.</p> + +<p>And these are for the latter course. Trouts calvored cold: Trouts flat +cold: Baked Trouts: Trouts marilled, that will eat perfect and sweet +three moneths in the heat of Summer: if I did say, for the whole year +about, I would make it good.</p> + +<p>For the dressing of four or five of the Dishes, I will shew you how I +did perform them.</p> + +<p>First, I will shew you for the boyling and calvoring, that serves for +hot and cold, for first and latter course.</p> + +<p>First, you must draw out the Intrails of the fish, cutting the fish +two or three times in the back; lay them in a Tray or Platter, put +some Vinegar upon them; you shall see the fish turn sanguine, if they +be new, presently: you must put so much water in the Kettle as you +thinke will cover them, with a pint of Vinegar, a handfull of Salt, +some Rosemary and Thyme and sweet Marjoram tyed in a bunch: then you +must make this liquor boyle with a fierce fire made of wood: when the +liquor hath boyled very well, put in your fish by one and one, keeping +your liquor alwayes boyling, untill you have put all in: having +provided a cover for your Kettle, so put on the cover: you must have a +paire of Bellowes to blow up the fire with speed, that the liquor may +boyle up to the top of the Kettle; so the fierce boiling will make the +Fish to calvor: provided, the fish be new<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> killed: you may let +them boile nigh a quarter of an hour; when they are cold, you may put +them in a Tray or earthen Pan, untill you have occasion to use them: +be sure they lie covered.</p> + +<p>For your stewed Trouts, you must cut them on the side, as for +broiling: there are divers wayes of stewing; the English hath one way, +the French hath another way, the Italian hath another way: I may speak +this; for I have been admitted into the Kitchins, to furnish men of +most Nations, when they have been in England.</p> + +<p>We will begin with the English: He broyleth first upon a Charcoale +fire; the first thing that you must have a care of is, when your +Grid-iron is hot you must coole it with ruff Suet, then the skin of +your Fish will not break, with care of turning them: when they are +nigh broyled, take them off the Grid-iron; set on a Chafing-dish of +coals in a Stew-pan, or Dish; put in a good quantity of fresh Butter, +so much Vinegar as will give the relish, a penny-worth of beaten +Cinamon; then put in your broyled fish, and let them stew, about halfe +an houre will be sufficient, being turned: adorn your Dish with +Sippets, take the fish out of the stew-pan, lay them for the service, +be sure to squease a Lemmon on them: I will warrant them good +victuall.</p> + +<p>The Italian he stewes upon a Chafing-dish of coals, with white Wine, +Cloves, and Mace, Nutmegs sliced, a little Ginger: you must understand +when this fish is stewed, the same liquor that the fish is stewed in, +must be beaten with some Butter and the juyce of a Lemmon, before it +is dish'd for the service. The French doe add to this a slice or two +of Bacon.</p> + +<p>I will shew you the way to marrionate a Trout or other fish that will +keep a quarter of a yeare in Summer, which is the Italians rarest Dish +for fresh fish, and will eat perfect and sweet.</p> + +<p>You must take out the Intrailes as you doe of other fish, and cut them +a-crosse the sides, as you do to broyle, washed clean, dried with a +cloth, lay them upon a Tray or board, sprinkle a little salt on them, +and flowre them as to frie them, so take your Frying-pan with so much +Suet, when it is melted, as the Fish may lye to the midside in the +liquor,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> and so fry them; and every time you turn them, flower +them againe, untill you finde the fish fryed sufficient: when you +think the fish is fryed, take it out of the Pan, and lay it upon some +thing, that the liquor may draine out of it; when the fish is cold, +you may reare it an end.</p> + +<p>You must have a close Vessell to keep this fish and liquor in, that no +winde comes in, according to the quantity you make triall of.</p> + +<p>For the Liquor. First, you must take halfe Claret-Wine, the other +halfe Vinegar, two or three Bay-leaves, so much Saffron as a Nut tyed +in a cloth, with some Cloves and large Mace, some Nutmeg sliced; boile +all these together very well; when the liquor is cold, and the fish +cold, put the fish and liquor into the close Vessell, with three or +four Lemmons sliced among the fish; make all close that no winde can +get into the Vessell; after eight or ten days you may begin to eat of +this fish; the Sauce must be some of the same liquor, with some of a +sliced Lemmon.</p> + + +<h3><i>To dresse a Pike.</i></h3> +<p>When the <i>Pike</i> cometh into the Kitchin, kill it; then take a handfull +of Salt, with water, and rub the fish very well to take the slime off, +draw out the Intrailes; wash the <i>Pike</i> cleane, put a handfull of +<i>Salt</i> in the Pikes Belly; then take so much water, with a pinte of +Vinegar: if the <i>Pike</i> be any thing large, you must put in at least +three handfull of Salt, with a bunch of Rosemary, Thyme, and sweet +Marjoram, and two or three green Onyons; boyle your liquor very well +with a high fire made of wood; then put in your <i>Pike</i>, cover your +Kettle, with your Bellows keep your Kettle boiling verie high for the +space of halfe an houre or thereabouts: a <i>Pike</i> asketh great boiling: +for the sauce, it is sweet Butter well beaten with some of the top of +the same liquor, with two or three Antchovaes, the skin taken off, and +the bones taken out, a little Vinegar, so garnish your Dish: when your +<i>Pike</i> is Dished, take the juyce of a Lemmon, and put on the top of +the fish: there is no doubt but it is good victuall.</p> + +<p>I could set downe as many ways to dress Eeles, as would furnish a +Lords Table: but I will relate but one.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p> + +<p>Take off the skinne whole, till you come within two inches of the +taile, beginning at the head: take out the Intrailes, wash the Eele +cleane, drie it with a cloth, scotch it all along both the sides; take +some Pepper and Salt, mixe them together, rub the Eele well with the +Pepper, and Salt; draw the skinne on againe whole; tye the skinne +about the head with a little thred lapped round, broyled on a +Charcoale fire, let your Grid-iron be hot, rub your Grid-iron with +some ruffe Suet; the skinne will not burne; this is good; but take the +skin off, and stew the Eele betwixt two Dishes, on a Chafing-dish of +Coals, with sweet Butter, Vinegar, and beaten Cinnamon, they will be +better.</p> + +<p>The boyling of a Carp is the very same way as I have shewed for the +Trout, the scales on: no better Sauce can be made than the Antchovaes +Sauce. The high-boyling is the way for all fresh-water Fish: I have +served seven times seven years, to see the experiment.</p> + +<p>If there be any Gentleman that liveth adjoyning to a River side, where +Trouts are; I will shew the way to bring them to feed, that he may see +them at his pleasure; and to bring store to the place. Gather great +Garden-Wormes, the quantity of a pinte, or a quarte, chop them in +pieces, and throw them where you intend to have your pleasure; with +feeding often, there is no doubt of their comming; they will come as +Sheep to the Pen: you must begin to feed with peeces of worms, by +hand, by one and one, untill you see them eat; then you may feed with +Liver or Lights, so your desire will be effected. And thus I conclude +this short Treatise.</p> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/image_04.jpg" width="600" height="27" alt="Decorative Image" /> +</div> + +<h3>FINIS.</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/image_04.jpg" width="600" height="27" alt="Decorative Image" /> +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Art of Angling, by Thomas Barker + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ART OF ANGLING *** + +***** This file should be named 26116-h.htm or 26116-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/1/1/26116/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan and The Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Art of Angling + Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary + to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation + +Author: Thomas Barker + +Release Date: July 24, 2008 [EBook #26116] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ART OF ANGLING *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan and The Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + _The Art of_ + + ANGLING. + + + WHEREIN + + Are discovered many rare Secrets, + very necessary to be knowne + by all that delight in + that Recreation. + + + + + + + _LONDON,_ + + Printed in the Yeare 1653. + + + ONLY ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED. + + + Reprinted by Inchbold and Gawtress, Leeds. + + 1817. + + * * * * * + + + + +_The Art of Angling._ + + +Reader: I will complement, and put a case to you. I met with a man, +and upon our Discourse he fell out with me: this man having a good +weapon, having neither wit, stomack, nor skill; I say this man may +come home by _Totnam-high-Cross_, and cause the Clerk to tole his +knell: It is the very like case with the Gentleman Angler that goeth +to the River for his pleasure: this Angler hath neither judgment, +knowledge, nor experience; he may come home light laden at his +pleasure. + +A man that goeth to the River for his pleasure, must understand, when +he cometh there, to set forth his Tackles. The first thing he must do, +is to observe the Sun, the Wind, the Moon, the Starres, and the Wanes +of the Air; to set forth his Tackles according to the times and +seasons; to goe for his pleasure, and some profit. + +As for example, the Sun proves cloudy; then must he set forth either +his ground Bait or Tackles, and of the brightest of his Flies. If the +Sun prove bright, then must he put on some of the darkest of his +flies. Thus must you goe to work with your Flies, light for darkness, +and dark for lightness, with the wind in the South, then that blows +the Flie in the Trouts mouth. Though I set down the wind being in the +South, if the weather be warm, I am indifferent where the wind +standeth, either with ground Bait or Menow, so that I can cast my Bait +into the River. The very same observations is for night, as for day: +For if the Moon prove cleer, or if the Stars glitter in the skie, +there is as ill Angling that night, as if it were at high noon in the +midst of Summer, when the Sun shineth at the brightest, wherein there +is no hopes of pleasure. + +I will begin to Angle for the Trout, with the ground Baits with this +quality. + +The first thing you must gaine, must be a neat taper Rod, light +before, with a tender hazell top, which is very gentle. If you desire +to attain my way of Angling, (for I have Angled these forty years) +with a single haire of five lengths, one tied to another for the +bottom of my Line, and a Line of three haired links for the uppermost +part; and so you may kill the greatest Trout that swims, with +Sea-room. + +He that Angles with a Line made of three haired links at the bottom, +and more at the top, may kill Fish: but he that Angles with one hair +shall kill five Trouts to the others one; for the Trout is very quick +sighted; therefore the best way for night or day, is to keep out of +the sight. You must Angle alwayes with the point of your Rod downe the +stream; for a Fish hath not the quickness of sight so perfect up the +stream, as opposite against him, observing seasonable times; as for +example, we begin to Angle in _March_; If it prove cloudie, you may +Angle with the ground Baits all day long: but if it prove bright and +cleere, you must take the morning and evening, or else you are not +like to do any good; so the times must be observed, and truely +understood; for when an Angler commeth to the River for his pleasure +that doth not understand to set forth his Tackles fit for the time, it +is as good keep them in the bag, as set them forth. + +I am determined to Angle with the ground Baits and set my Tackles to +my Rod, and go to my pleasure: I begin at the uppermost part of the +streame, carrying my Line with an upright hand, feeling the Plummet +running on the ground some ten inches from the hook, plumming my Line +according to the swiftnesse of the stream you Angle in; for one +plummet will not serve for all streams; for the true Angling is that +the plummet runneth on the ground. + +For the Bait. The red knotted worme is very good where Brandlins are +not to be had, but Brandlins are better: now that you may bring these +Brandlings fit to Angle with, that they may live long on the hook, +which causeth the best sport. When you have gathered your worms out of +the dung-hill, you must gaine the greenest Moss you can find, then +wash the earth very clean out of it, then provide an earthen pot, so +put your Moss into the pot, then put the worms to the Moss into the +pot; within two days you shall find your worms so poor, that if you +bait some of them on your hook, you shall see that with throwing of +them two or three times into the water, they will dye and grow white: +now the skill is, when these worms be grown poor, you must feed them +up to make them fat and lusty, that they may live long on the hook; +that is the chiefest point. + +To make them lusty and fat, you must take the yolke of an Egge, some +eight or ten spoonfull of the top of new milk, beaten well together in +a Porringer, warm it a little, untill you see it curdle; then take it +off the fire, and set it to coole; when it is cold, take a spoonfull +and drop it upon your Moss into the pot, every drop about the bignesse +of a green Pea, shifting your Moss twice in the week in the Summer, +and once in the winter: thus doing, you shall feed your wormes fat, +and make them lusty, that they will live a long time on the hook; so +you may keep them all the year long. This is my true experience for +the ground Baits, for the running Line for the Trout. + +The Angling with a Menow, called in some places Pencks for a Trout, is +a pleasant sport, and killeth the greatest Fish; he commeth boldly to +the Bait, as if it were a Mastive Dog at a Beare: you may Angle with +greater Tackles, and stronger, and be no prejudice to you in your +Angling: a Line made of three silks and three hairs twisted for the +uppermost part of the Line, and two silkes and two haires twisted for +the bottome next your hook, with a Swivel nigh the middle of your +Line, with an indifferent large hook. + +To bait your hook with a Menow, you must put your hook through the +lowermost part of his mouth, so draw your hook thorow, then put the +hook in at the mouth againe, let the point of the hook come out at the +hindmost Fin, then draw your Line, and the Menowes mouth will close, +that no water will get into its belly; you must alwayes be Angling +with the point of your Rod down the stream, with drawing the Menow up +the stream by little and little, nigh the top of the water; the Trout +seeing the bait, commeth at it most fiercely, so give a little time +before you strike: This is the true way, without Lead; for many times +I have had them come at the Lead and forsake the Menow, so he that +tryeth shall prove it in time: let us go to Angling with a Flie, which +is a delightfull sport. + +The Rod must be light and tender, if you can fit yourselfe with an +Hazell, either of one piece or two set together in the most convenient +manner, light and gentle: set your Line to the Rod; for the uppermost +part, you may use your owne discretion; for the lower part, next your +Flie, must be of three or foure haired links. If you can attain to +Angle with one haire, you shall have the more rises, and kill more +fish; be sure you doe not over-load yourself with the length of your +Line: before you begin to Angle, make a triall, having the winde in +your back to see at what length you can cast your Flie, that the Flie +light first into the water, and no longer; for if any of the Line +falleth into the water before the Flie, it is better unthrowne then +throwne; be sure you be casting alwayes downe the stream, with the +Wind behinde you, and the Sun before; it is a speciall point to have +the Sunne and Moon before you; for the very motion of the Rod drives +all the pleasure from you, either by day or night in all your +Anglings, both for Wormes and Flies; so there must bee a great care of +that. + +Let us begin to Angle in _March_ with the Flie: If the weather prove +Windie, or Cloudie, there are severall kindes of Palmers that are good +for that time. + +First, a black Palmer ribbed with silver: the second, a black Palmer +with an Orange-tauny body: thirdly, a black Palmer, with the body made +all of black: fourthly, a red Palmer ribbed with gold, and a red +hackle mixed with Orenge cruel; these Flies serve all the year long +morning and evening, windie and cloudie. Then if the Aire prove bright +and cleare, you must imitate the Hauthorn Flie, which is all black and +very small, and the smaller the better. In _May_ take the _May_-flie: +imitate that, which is made severall wayes; some make them with a +shammy body, ribbed with a black haire: another way made with +Sandy-Hogges wooll, ribbed with black silke, and winged with a +Mallards feather, according to the fancy of the Angler. There is +another called the Oak-Flie, which is made of Orange colour Cruell and +black, with a browne wing; imitate that: Another Flie, the body made +with the strain of a Pea-Cocks feather, which is very good in a +bright day: The Grasse-hopper which is green imitate that; the smaller +the Flies be made, and of indifferent small hooks, they are the +better; these sorts I have set downe, will serve all the year long, +observing the times and seasons: Note, the lightest of your Flies for +cloudy and darknesse, and the darkest of your Flies for lightnesse, +and the rest for indifferent times; that a mans owne Judgement, with +some experience and discretion must guide him: If he mean to kill +Fish, he must alter his Flies according to these directions. Now, of +late, I have found, that Hogs-wooll, of severall colours, makes good +grounds; and the wooll of a red Heyfer makes a good body: And Bears +wool makes a good ground; so I now work much of them, and it procureth +very much sport. + +The naturall Flie is sure Angling, and will kill great store of Trouts +with much pleasure: As for the May-Flie, you shall have them always +playing at the River side, especially against Raine. The Oake-Flie is +to bee had on the butt of an Oake, or an Ash, from the beginning of +_May_ to the end of _August_: it is a brownish Flie, and stands +alwayes with his head towards the root of the tree, very easie to be +found: The small black Flie is to be had one evry Hawthorn Bush, after +the buds be come forth: Your Grasse-hopper, which is green, is to be +had in any Medow of Grasse in _June_ or _July_: with these Flies, you +must Angle with such a Rod as you Angle with the ground Bait; the Line +must not be so long as the Rod: with drawing your flie, as you finde +convenient in your Angling. When you come to deep waters that stand +somewhat still, make your Line some two yards long, or thereabout, and +dop your Flie behinde a bush, which Angling I have had good sport at; +we call it doping. + +A Lord lately sent to me at Sun going down, to provide him a good dish +of Trouts against the next morning by six of the Clock: I went to the +door to see how the wains of the Aire were like to prove, and returned +answer, that I doubted not but to be provided (God willing) at my time +appointed. I went presently to the River, and it proved very dark; I +drew out a Line of three silkes and three hairs twisted for the +uppermost part, and a Line of two silks and two hairs twisted for the +lowermost part, with a good large hook: I baited my hook with two +Lob-worms, the four ends hanging as meet as I could ghesse them in the +dark: I fell to Angle; it proved very dark, that I had good sport, +Angling with the Lob-worms, as I doe with the Flie, at the top of the +water; you shall heare the Fish rise at the top of the water; then you +must loose a slack Line down to the bottome, as nigh as you can +ghesse, then hold a straight Line; feeling the Fish bite, give time, +there is no doubt of losing the Fish; for there is not one among +twenty, but doth gorge the Bait: the least stroak you can strike to +fasten the hook, makes the fish sure, and then you may take the fish +up with your hands: The night began to alter and grew somewhat +lighter; I took off the Lob-worms, and set to my Rod a white Palmer +Flie, made of a large hook, I had sport for the time, till it grew +lighter; then I put on my red Palmer, I had sport for the time untill +it grew very light; then I set on my black Palmer, had good sport, +made up my dish of fish, put up my Tackles, and was at my time +appointed for the service. For these three Flies, with the help of the +Lob-worms, serve to Angle all the year long, observing the times, as I +have shewed in this nights work: a light Flie for darknes, the red +Flie _in medio_, and a dark Flie for lightnesse: This is my experiment +for this kind of Angling, which is the surest Angling of all, and +killeth the greatest Fish: your Lines may be strong, but must be no +longer than the Rod. + +To take a Carp either in Pond or River, if you mean to have sport with +some profit, you must take a peck of Ale-graines, and a good quantity +of any bloud, and mix the bloud and graines together, and cast it in +the places where you meane to Angle; this feed will gather the scale +Fish together, as Carp, Tench, Roach, Dace, and Bream; the next +morning be at your sport very early, plum your ground: you may Angle +for the Carp with a strong Line; the Bait must be either a red knotted +worm, or Paste: there is no doubt of sport. + +To take Pearch. The Pearch feeds well, if you light where they be, and +bites very free: My opinion is, (with some experience) to bait with +Lob-worms, chopt in pieces over night; so come in the morning +betimes, plum your ground, gage your line, bait your hook with a red +knotted worme; but I hold a Menow better: put the hook in at the back +of the Menow, betwixt the fish and the skin, that the Menow may swim +up and down alive, being boyed up with a Cork or Quill, that the Menow +may have liberty to swimme a foot off the ground: there is no doubt of +sport with profit. + +I will shew, a little, my opinion of floating for scale fish in the +River or Pond: The feed brings the Fish together, as the sheep to the +Pen: There is nothing better in all your Anglings, for feed, then +Bloud and Grains; I hold it better then Paste: then plumming your +ground, Angling with fine Tackles, as single haire for halfe the Line +next the hook, round and small plumed, according to your float: For +the Bait, there is a small red worm, with a yellow tip on his taile, +is very good; Brandlins, Gentles, Paste, or Cadice, which we call +Cod-bait, they lye in a gravelly husk under stones in the River: these +be the speciall Baits for these kinde of Fish. + +One of my name was the best Trouler, for a Pike, in this Realme: he +laid a wager, that he would take a Pike of four foot long, of Fish, +within the space of one Moneth, with his Trouling-Rod; so he Trouled +three weeks and odde days, and took many great Pikes, nigh the length, +but did not reach the full length, till within the space of three +dayes of the time; then he took one, and won the wager. The manner of +his Trouling was, with a Hazell Rod of twelve foot long, with a Ring +of Wyre in the top of his Rod, for his Line to runne thorow: within +two foot of the bottome of the Rod there was a hole made, for to put +in a winde, to turne with a barrell, to gather up his Line, and loose +at his pleasure; this was his manner of Trouling: But I will pawn my +credit, that I will shew a way, either in Maior, Pond, or River, that +shall take more Pikes than any Trouler with his Rod: And thus it is. +First, take forked stick, a Line of twelve yards long wound upon it, +at the upper end, leave about a yard, either to tye a bunch of Sags, +or a Bladder, to Boy up the Fish, and to carry it from the ground: the +Bait must be a live Fish, either Dace, or Gudgin, or Roach, or a +small Trout: the forked stick must have a slit in the one side of the +fork to put in the Line, that you may set your live Fish to swimme at +a gage, that when the Pike taketh the Bait, he may have the full +liberty of the Line for his feed. + +You may turne these loose, either in Pond or River: in the Pond with +the winde all day long, the more the better: at night set some small +weight, as may stay the Boy, as a Ship lyeth at Anchor, till the Fish +taketh. For the River, you must turn all loose with the streame; two +or three be sufficient to shew pleasure, gaged at such a depth as they +will go currant downe the River; there is no doubt of sport, if there +be Pikes: for the hooks, they must be doubled hooks, the shanks should +be somewhat shorter than ordinary: my reason is, the shorter the hook +is of the shank, it will hurt the live Fish the lesse, and must be +armed with small wyre well softned; but I hold a hook armed with +twisted silk to be better, for it will hurt the live fish least. + +If you arm your hook with wyre, the neeld must be made with a small +hook at the one end thereof. If you arme with silke, the neeld must be +made with an eye: then must you take one of those Baits alive (which +you can get) and with one of your neelds enter within a strawes breath +of the Gill of the Fish, so put the neeld betwixt the skin and the +Fish; then pull the neeld out at the hindmost finne, and draw the +arming thorow the Fish, until the hook come to lye close to the Fishes +bodie: But I hold for those that be armed with wyre to take off the +hook, and put the neeld in the hindmost fin and so to come forth at +the Gill; then put on the hook drawn close to the body, 'twill hurt +the live Fish the less, so knit the arming with the live Fish to the +Line; then put off either in Maior or Pond, with the winde, in the +River with the stream: The more you put off in Maior or Pond, you are +like to have the more pleasure: For the River I have shewed you +before. + +There is a time when Pikes goe a Frogging Ditches, and in the River to +Sun them, as in May, June and July, there is a speedy way to take +them, and not to misse scarce one in twenty. + +You must take a Line of six or eight foot long, arm a large hook, of +the largest size that is made; arm it to your Line, lead the shank of +your hook very handsom, that it may be of such a weight as you may +guide the hook at your pleasure: you may strike the Pike, you see, +with the bare hook where you please: this Line and hook doth far +exceed snaring. + +The principall sport to take a Pike, is to take a Goose or Gander, or +Duck: take one of the Pike Lines I have shewed you before: tye the +Line under the left wing, and over the right wing, about the body, as +a man weareth his Belt: turne the Goose off into a Pond, where _Pikes_ +are, there is no doubt of sport, with great pleasure, betwixt the +Goose and the _Pike_: It is the greatest sport and pleasure that a +noble Gentleman in _Shropshire_ doth give his friends entertainment +with. + +The way to make the best paste is, Take, a reasonable quantity of +fresh Butter, as much fresh sheeps Suet, a reasonable quantity of the +strongest Cheese you can get, with the soft of an old stale white +loafe; beat all this in a Morter till it come to perfect paste; put as +much on your hook as a green pease. + +There are many wayes to take Eeles: I will shew you a good way to take +a dish of Eeles. When you stay a night or two Angling, take four or +five Lines, such as be laid for _Pikes_, of fourteen or fifteen yards +long, and at every two yards make a noose, to hang a hook armed either +to double thred, or silk twist; for it is better then wyre: Bait your +Hooks with Millors-thumbs, Loaches, Menowes, or Gudgins: tye to every +noose a Line baited: these Lines must be laid crosse the River in the +deepest places, either with stones, or pegged, so the Line lie in the +bottome of the river, there is no doubt of taking a dish of Eeles; you +must have a small neeld with an eye, to bait your hooks. + +Now to shew how to make Flies: learn to make two Flies, and make all: +that is, the Palmer ribbed with silver or gold, and the May-flie: +these are the ground of all Flies. + +We will begin to make the Palmer Flie: You must arme your Line on the +inside of the hook; take your Scisers, and cut so much of the brown of +the Mallards feather, as in your owne reason shall make the wings, +then lay the outmost part of the feather next the hook, and the point +of the feather towards the shanke of the hook, then whip it three or +four times about the hook with the same silk you armed the hook: then +make your silk fast: then you must take the hackle of the neck of a +Cock or Capon, or a Plovers top, which is the best, take off the one +side of the feather, then you must take the hackle silk, or cruell, +gold or silver thred; make all these fast at the bent of the hook, +then you must begin with Cruell, and Silver, or Gold, and work it up +to the wings, every bout shifting your fingers, and making a stop, +then the gold will fall right, then make fast: then work up the hackle +to the same place, then make the hackle fast: then you must take the +hook betwixt your finger and thumb, in the left hand, with a neeld or +pin, part the wings in two: then with the arming silk, as you have +fastned all hitherto, whip about as it falleth crosse betwixt the +wings, then with your thumb you must turne the point of the feather +towards the bent of the hook, then work three or four times about the +shank, so fasten, then view the proportion. + +For the other Flies: If you make the grounds of Hogs-wooll, sandy, +black or white; or the wooll of a Bear, or of a two year old red +Bullock: you must work all these grounds upon a waxed silk, then you +must arm and set on the wings, as I have shewed before: For the +May-flie, you work the body with some of these grounds, which is very +good, ribbed with a black hair; you may work the body with Cruels, +imitating the Colour, or with Silver, with suiting the wings. For the +Oak-flie, you must make him with Orange-tauny and black, for the body, +and the brown of the Mallards feather for the wings. If you do after +my directions, they will kill fish, observing the times fitting, and +follow my former Directions. + +If any worthy or honest Angler cannot hit of these my Directions, let +him come to me, he shall read and I will work, he shall see all things +done according to my foresaid Directions: So I conclude for the Flie, +having shewed you my true Experiments, with the Rod, I will set all +labouring sports aside: + +And now I am waiting on my Lord with a great Dish of Trouts, who +meeting with company, commanded me to turne Scullion and dresse a +Dinner of the Trouts wee had taken: whereupon I gave my Lord this +Bill of fare, which I did furnish his Table with, according as it was +furnished with flesh. Trouts in broth, which is restorative: Trouts +broyled, cut and filled with sweet Herbes chopt: Trouts calvored hot +with Antchovaes sauce: Trouts boyled; out of which Kettle I make three +Dishes; the one for a Soused Dish, another for a Stew'd Dish, the +third for a hot Dish: the Sauce is Butter, Vinegar, beaten Cinamon, +with the juyce of a Lemmon, beaten very well together, that the Sauce +is white and thick, or else it is no Sauce for a great man's Table: +Trouts fryed, which must be done, and not put into the Pan, untill the +Suet boyle very high, and kept with stirring all the time they are +frying, being flowr'd first. Trouts stew'd: Trouts close, boyled with +the calvored Trouts, all in one Kettle and the same liquor: Trouts +butter'd with Egs: Trouts roasted: Trouts baked: these are for the +first course, before the Salt. + +And these are for the latter course. Trouts calvored cold: Trouts flat +cold: Baked Trouts: Trouts marilled, that will eat perfect and sweet +three moneths in the heat of Summer: if I did say, for the whole year +about, I would make it good. + +For the dressing of four or five of the Dishes, I will shew you how I +did perform them. + +First, I will shew you for the boyling and calvoring, that serves for +hot and cold, for first and latter course. + +First, you must draw out the Intrails of the fish, cutting the fish +two or three times in the back; lay them in a Tray or Platter, put +some Vinegar upon them; you shall see the fish turn sanguine, if they +be new, presently: you must put so much water in the Kettle as you +thinke will cover them, with a pint of Vinegar, a handfull of Salt, +some Rosemary and Thyme and sweet Marjoram tyed in a bunch: then you +must make this liquor boyle with a fierce fire made of wood: when the +liquor hath boyled very well, put in your fish by one and one, keeping +your liquor alwayes boyling, untill you have put all in: having +provided a cover for your Kettle, so put on the cover: you must have a +paire of Bellowes to blow up the fire with speed, that the liquor may +boyle up to the top of the Kettle; so the fierce boiling will make the +Fish to calvor: provided, the fish be new killed: you may let them +boile nigh a quarter of an hour; when they are cold, you may put them +in a Tray or earthen Pan, untill you have occasion to use them: be +sure they lie covered. + +For your stewed Trouts, you must cut them on the side, as for +broiling: there are divers wayes of stewing; the English hath one way, +the French hath another way, the Italian hath another way: I may speak +this; for I have been admitted into the Kitchins, to furnish men of +most Nations, when they have been in England. + +We will begin with the English: He broyleth first upon a Charcoale +fire; the first thing that you must have a care of is, when your +Grid-iron is hot you must coole it with ruff Suet, then the skin of +your Fish will not break, with care of turning them: when they are +nigh broyled, take them off the Grid-iron; set on a Chafing-dish of +coals in a Stew-pan, or Dish; put in a good quantity of fresh Butter, +so much Vinegar as will give the relish, a penny-worth of beaten +Cinamon; then put in your broyled fish, and let them stew, about halfe +an houre will be sufficient, being turned: adorn your Dish with +Sippets, take the fish out of the stew-pan, lay them for the service, +be sure to squease a Lemmon on them: I will warrant them good +victuall. + +The Italian he stewes upon a Chafing-dish of coals, with white Wine, +Cloves, and Mace, Nutmegs sliced, a little Ginger: you must understand +when this fish is stewed, the same liquor that the fish is stewed in, +must be beaten with some Butter and the juyce of a Lemmon, before it +is dish'd for the service. The French doe add to this a slice or two +of Bacon. + +I will shew you the way to marrionate a Trout or other fish that will +keep a quarter of a yeare in Summer, which is the Italians rarest Dish +for fresh fish, and will eat perfect and sweet. + +You must take out the Intrailes as you doe of other fish, and cut them +a-crosse the sides, as you do to broyle, washed clean, dried with a +cloth, lay them upon a Tray or board, sprinkle a little salt on them, +and flowre them as to frie them, so take your Frying-pan with so much +Suet, when it is melted, as the Fish may lye to the midside in the +liquor, and so fry them; and every time you turn them, flower them +againe, untill you finde the fish fryed sufficient: when you think the +fish is fryed, take it out of the Pan, and lay it upon some thing, +that the liquor may draine out of it; when the fish is cold, you may +reare it an end. + +You must have a close Vessell to keep this fish and liquor in, that no +winde comes in, according to the quantity you make triall of. + +For the Liquor. First, you must take halfe Claret-Wine, the other +halfe Vinegar, two or three Bay-leaves, so much Saffron as a Nut tyed +in a cloth, with some Cloves and large Mace, some Nutmeg sliced; boile +all these together very well; when the liquor is cold, and the fish +cold, put the fish and liquor into the close Vessell, with three or +four Lemmons sliced among the fish; make all close that no winde can +get into the Vessell; after eight or ten days you may begin to eat of +this fish; the Sauce must be some of the same liquor, with some of a +sliced Lemmon. + + +_To dresse a Pike._ + +When the _Pike_ cometh into the Kitchin, kill it; then take a handfull +of Salt, with water, and rub the fish very well to take the slime off, +draw out the Intrailes; wash the _Pike_ cleane, put a handfull of +_Salt_ in the Pikes Belly; then take so much water, with a pinte of +Vinegar: if the _Pike_ be any thing large, you must put in at least +three handfull of Salt, with a bunch of Rosemary, Thyme, and sweet +Marjoram, and two or three green Onyons; boyle your liquor very well +with a high fire made of wood; then put in your _Pike_, cover your +Kettle, with your Bellows keep your Kettle boiling verie high for the +space of halfe an houre or thereabouts: a _Pike_ asketh great boiling: +for the sauce, it is sweet Butter well beaten with some of the top of +the same liquor, with two or three Antchovaes, the skin taken off, and +the bones taken out, a little Vinegar, so garnish your Dish: when your +_Pike_ is Dished, take the juyce of a Lemmon, and put on the top of +the fish: there is no doubt but it is good victuall. + +I could set downe as many ways to dress Eeles, as would furnish a +Lords Table: but I will relate but one. + +Take off the skinne whole, till you come within two inches of the +taile, beginning at the head: take out the Intrailes, wash the Eele +cleane, drie it with a cloth, scotch it all along both the sides; take +some Pepper and Salt, mixe them together, rub the Eele well with the +Pepper, and Salt; draw the skinne on againe whole; tye the skinne +about the head with a little thred lapped round, broyled on a +Charcoale fire, let your Grid-iron be hot, rub your Grid-iron with +some ruffe Suet; the skinne will not burne; this is good; but take the +skin off, and stew the Eele betwixt two Dishes, on a Chafing-dish of +Coals, with sweet Butter, Vinegar, and beaten Cinnamon, they will be +better. + +The boyling of a Carp is the very same way as I have shewed for the +Trout, the scales on: no better Sauce can be made than the Antchovaes +Sauce. The high-boyling is the way for all fresh-water Fish: I have +served seven times seven years, to see the experiment. + +If there be any Gentleman that liveth adjoyning to a River side, where +Trouts are; I will shew the way to bring them to feed, that he may see +them at his pleasure; and to bring store to the place. Gather great +Garden-Wormes, the quantity of a pinte, or a quarte, chop them in +pieces, and throw them where you intend to have your pleasure; with +feeding often, there is no doubt of their comming; they will come as +Sheep to the Pen: you must begin to feed with peeces of worms, by +hand, by one and one, untill you see them eat; then you may feed with +Liver or Lights, so your desire will be effected. 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