A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle: Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496Berners, Juliana
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle: Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496
Berners, Juliana
Fishing
++THe Troughte for by cause he is a right deyntous fyssh and also a
ryght feruente byter we shall speke nexte of hym. He is in season fro
Marche vnto Myghelmas. He is on clene grauely groūde & in a streme.
Ye may angle to hym {15} all tymes wyth a grounde lyne lyenge or
rennynge : sauyng in lepynge tyme. and thenne wyth a dubbe. And erly
wyth a rennynge grounde lyne. and forth in the daye wyth a flote
lyne.
¶ Ye shall angle to hym in Marche wyth a menew hangyd on your hoke by
the nether nesse wythout flote or plumbe : drawynge vp & downe in the
streme tyll ye fele hym taste. ¶ In the same tyme angle to hym wyth
a groūde lyne with a redde wor | me for the moost sure. ¶ In Aprill
take the same baytes : & also Inneba other wyse namyd .vij. eyes.
Also the canker that bredyth in a grete tree and the redde snayll.
¶ In May take y^e sto | ne flye and the bobbe vnder the cowe torde
and the sylke worme : and the bayte that bredyth on a fern̄ leyf.
¶ In Iuyn take a redde worme & nyppe of the heed : and put on thyn
hoke a codworme byforn. ¶ In Iuyll take the grete redde worme and the
codworme togyder. ¶ In August take a flesshe flye & the grete redde
worme and the fatte of the bakon : and bynde abowte thy hoke. ¶ In
Septembre take the redde worme and the menew. ¶ In Octobre take the
same : for they ben specyall for the trought all tymes of the yere.
From Aprill tyll Septembre y^e trough lepyth. thenne angle to hym
wyth a dubbyd hoke acordyn | ge to the moneth / whyche dubbyd hokys
ye shall fynde in then | de of this treatyse; and the monethys wyth
theym :
++THe grayllynge by a nother name callyd vmbre ia a delycyous fysshe
to mannys mouthe. And ye maye take hym lyke as ye doo the trought.
And thyse ben his bay | tes. ¶ In Marche & in Apryll the redde
worme. ¶ In May the grene worme : a lytyll breyled worme : the docke
canker. and the hawthorn worme. ¶ In Iune the bayte that bredyth
betwene the tree & the barke of an oke. ¶ In Iuyll a bayte that
bredyth on a fern̄ leyf : and the grete redde worme. And nyppe of the
he | de : and put on your hoke a codworme before. ¶ In August the
redde worme : and a docke worme. And al the yere after a reddde worme.
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