19. Before you set your hook to your line, arm the line by turning the silk five or six times about the link, and so with the same silk set on your hook; this preserves your lines, that your hook cut it not asunder, and also that it will not, when using the cast fly, snap off so easily, which it is very subject to do.
20. In very wet seasons Trouts leave the rivers and larger brooks, and retreat into such little brooks as scarce run at all in dry Summers.
21. To all sorts of pastes, add flax, cotton, or wool, to keep the paste from falling off your hook.
22. Deny not part of what your endeavours shall purchase unto any sick or indigent persons, but willingly distribute a part of your purchase to those who may desire a share.
23. Make not a profession of any recreation, lest your immoderate love towards it should bring a cross wish on the same.
J. Johnson, Printer, Brook Street, Holborn, London.
Transcriber’s Notes
[Page 10]— changed were to where—where the fish lie in wait for them
[Page 14]—changed then run the the same round your fly — then run the same round your fly.