Chapter XVII -The Compleat Angler

And in this manner you may also fish with it as a fly, sometimes letting it sink towards the bottom, and drawing it towards the top, which I had showed you before: this, my honest scholar, is a deadly and a dainty bait. There is also a smaller yellow cadis, than this which I
last mentioned, that breeds in the same rivers, but I think not so many: this cadis hath those little black legs which I told you some of the cadises have; and is a choice bait for a small-mouthed fish, being used as this last mentioned cadis; and he is taken in many rivers.

And for most of these cadis, especially the last, which is not big, but long, you shall observe, that the smaller the hook is, so it be firm, the better your sport will be, especially with this and most of the smaller cadises; which, being baited with a little hook, and drawn very leisurely, sometimes at the top, and sometimes in the middle water, does commonly afford much pleasure and sport with very good fish, both Trouts and Graylings: and this way of fishing, and with this bait, do both the Trout and Grayling bite freely, and usually very boldly; so that you may, with a light rod, and a line suitable to it, have both more sport and better fish, both for number and size, than with a fly; though with a fly taken in the month of May or August, which are usually the best fly-fishing months, there is very much and very pleasant sport to be had. There is also another small cadis-worm, called by some a gravel-worm, and by some a rush-
worm, because it usually keeps in and about gravel, or rushes, that grow in swift streams or about the bottoms or sides of rivers and streams; this is a short worm, not much unlike a taggit, but that it is not so white and somewhat bigger. This worm breeds more among gravel, especially in such streams as run through a clay ground; and where in many places, especially against rain, they are found to stick about those loose gravels or stones in heaps; and are a choice bait for any fish, especially for Roaches and Daces, or for a Chub or Chavender; and your way to fish with them is, to have a little worm-bag, and to keep this worm fresh in some moss, and some gravel with the moss, but to renew the moss oftner in hot weather than in colder weather; and when you fish with them, you are to bait them on your hook, or hooks, for there may be a need to use more than one, thus: put two or even three of these on your hook, and let your hook be very