the
_Rails_, _Quales_, _Moorpoots_, &c. are to be taken; and are for _Hawks_
flight too. And here I must make an end of the most material part of
_Fowling_.

_Of FISHING._

It has been the Method of this whole Treatise, to divide the several
distinct Heads of each Recreation into three Parts, to render the
Observations and Rules the more plain and easy, for the prosecuting the
Recreation we treat of.

1. _What_ it is we pursue.

2. _Where_ and _When_ to find that we would delight our selves in.

3. _With what_ proper _Mediums_ or Measures we may obtain the desired
Effects of our endeavours therein.

First then, _What_ we pursue is Fish, distinguish'd according to their
sundry kinds by these following Names.

The _Barbel_, _Bream_, _Bleak_, _Bulhead_, or _Millers-thumb_; _Chevin_,
_Char_, _Chub_, _Carp_; _Dace_; _Dare_; _Ele_; _Flounder_; _Grayling_,
_Gudgeon_, _Guiniad_; _Loach_; _Minnow_; _Pope_ or _Pike_, _Pearch_;
_Rud_, _Roach_; _Sticklebag_ or _Bansticle_, _Salmon_, _Shad_, _Suant_;
_Tench_, _Torcoth_, _Trout_, _Thwait_, and _Umber_. All these
Alphabetically thus named are the different sorts of Fish, in taking
which the Angler commonly exercises his Art. We come next, _Where_ to
find them.

1. To know the Haunts and Resorts of Fish, in which they are to be
usually found, is the most Material thing the Angler ought to be
instructed in, lest he vainly prepare _how to take_ them, and
preposterously seek _where to find_ that he prepar'd for. To prevent
which you are first to understand, That as the season of the Year is, so
Fish change their places: In _Summer_, some keep near the top, others
the bottom of the Waters. In _Winter_, all Fish in general resort to
deep Waters. But more particularly,

The _Barbel_, _Roach_, _Dace_, and _Ruff_, covet most _Sandy, Gravelly
Ground_, the deepest part of the River, and the shadows of _Trees_.

_Bream_, _Pike_, and _Chub_ delight in a _Clay_, and _Owzie Ground_: The
_Bream_ chooseth the middle of the River, in a gentle, not too rapid
Stream: The _Pike_ preferreth still Waters, full of _Fry_, and
absconding himself amongst _Bull-rushes_, _Water-docks_, or under
_Bushes_, that under these shelters he may more securely surprize and
seize his Prey: The _Chub_ too chooses the same Ground, large Rivers and
Streams, and is rarely destitute of some Tree to cover and shade him.

_Carp_, _Tench_ and _Eel_, frequent foul muddy still Waters. The
greatest _Eels_ lurk u