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Fishing Book III, Chapter 16, Section 5 Section V. The next and last thing for the recreation of the body, is fishing. now the skill therein is diuersely exercised some tyme with netts, sometymes with hookes, sometymes with salmon speares, or Eele speares, and ginnes, otherwise with Puttes and Weeles. Fishers pannier ![]() Pouch ![]() ![]() Eel spear ![]() Salmon spear ![]() Either this, or the eele speare when it is in its full shape, are to be set on the tops of speares, thereby to strike the deeper into the water, or mud. Eel spear ![]() A cheueron betweene 3 such (which Mr. Gwilliams calls Eeles speares) is borne by the name of Stratele. Double fish hook ![]() Fish hook ![]() In the base of this quarter is a fish hooke, by which Anglers catch small fish, as trouts, and such like: the tongue of the hooke, is that little tang or slip on the inside of it, which being stricken into any part of the fish hinders the hooke from comeing out. Some call it the barbe of the hooke. Fish wheel ![]() Double fish wheel ![]() Wheels ![]() Frett or net ![]() 87. He beareth a Frett, or Nett, quartered. Network ![]() 88. He beareth the feild wrought throw out with nett worke. Fishers basket ![]() Land net ![]() This is by Piscators termed a land nett, from it use: for the Angler haueing taken a large fish, which cannot get out of the water without endangering the lose of his hooke and line, or breaking of his rod. It is then his policy to let the fish play with his hook and line, and let him goe at pleasure, then giue him a little check, so by little and little he will be drawne neere the shoare; where haueing one of these netts, ready fixed to the end of a long pole, or staffe, they put it under the fish, and so beare it out of the water to land. The nett hath also an other use and then it is termed an Eele nett, or a flood nett, and then the pole or staffe is fixed to the ring (whereas in the use of it for a Land nett, it was fixed to the hoope, which is no other then a larg brasse wire) and so lett downe and taken vp againe, by which kind of action (in the ebbing and flowing of the water) all kind of fish that swim ouer it, are sure to be taken in it. Labyrinth ![]() ![]() Some terme this the Maze, or runing of the Mazes. This is an Intricate goeing in and out of a walke, which hath many turnings and windings: or a building that hath so many doores in it, that there could be no certaine goeing in, and when in, could not well gett out againe. Such a place as this, was Woodstock Bower, which had so many hundred doore it it, that noe could goe right in and out, but by a clew of thrid. Stilts ![]() Related text(s) Country games ![]() ![]()
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