The compleat troller : or, The art of trolling, with a description of all the utensils, instruments, tackling, and materials requisite thereto : with rules and directions how to use them : as also a brief account of most of the principal rivers in England (1682)
Nobbes, Robert, 1652-1706? · London : Printed by T. James for Tho. Helder · leaf 63
more apt to checkand take hold of the PFeeds and Rooa-, it is thefitteil for a great Bait, for if you put a fmali andilender Bait on a double//oo/f, it will hang outand bear off fo much in the bendings, that aPike may not only difcover the delufion and craftof it, but if he chance to take it» it… … Another fort there is that is more floped and thebents clofer together; others there are thathave a round bent, much after the form of theSnap, which muft always have a full bent, andvery large ; That is baited by fixing the Hook m the The Art ofTrollhgi 39 the middle of the Bait, and may have the…
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