There is also another cadis, called by some a Straw-worm, and by some a
Ruff-coat, whose house, or case, is made of little pieces of bents, and
rushes, and straws, and water-weeds, and I know not what; which are so
knit together with condensed slime, that they stick about her husk or
case, not unlike the bristles of a hedge-hog. These three cadises are
commonly taken in the beginning of summer; and are good, indeed, to take
any kind of fish, with float or otherwise. I might tell you of many
more, which as they do early, so those have their time also of turning
to be flies in later summer; but I might lose myself, and tire you, by
such a discourse: I shall therefore but remember you, that to know
these, and their several kinds, and to what flies every particular cadis
turns, and then how to use them, first as they be cadis, and after as
they be flies, is an art, and an art that every one that professes to be
an angler has not leisure to search after, and, if he had, is not
capable of learning.
I'll tell you, scholar; several countries have several kinds of cadises,
that indeed differ as much as dogs do; that is to say, as much as a very
cur and a greyhound do. These be usually bred in the very little rills,
or ditches, that run into bigger rivers; and I think a more proper bait
for those very rivers than any other. I know not how, or of what, this
cadis receives life, or what coloured fly it turns to; but doubtless
they are the death of many Trouts: and this is one killing way:
Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow cadis: pull off his
head, and with it pull out his black gut; put the body, as little
bruised as is possible, on a very little hook, armed on with a red hair,
which will shew like the cadis-head; and a very little thin lead, so put
upon the shank of the hook that it may sink presently. Throw this bait,
thus ordered, which will look very yellow, into any great still hole
where a Trout is, and he will presently venture his life for it, it is
not to be doubted, if you be not espied; and that the bait first touch
the water before the line. And this will do best in the deepest stillest
water.
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