A booke of fishing with hooke and line . e called Twiner. If your Otter wele beolde, and not strong, and if the Otter chaunce to breake it and scape, ye shallhardly take him of a long time after, for he is very subtill to be caught again e insuch a wele. There be that hath prouided many wayes ere they could take much heere for the setting of the Otter Wele, and here shall follow the saideOtter Wele, with his proportion how to be made and set, the more easier to makethem where as they haue not beene scene before. To know if an Otter do hauntriuer or ponde, you must watch the waters in
A booke of fishing with hooke and line . e called Twiner. If your Otter wele beolde, and not strong, and if the Otter chaunce to breake it and scape, ye shallhardly take him of a long time after, for he is very subtill to be caught again e insuch a wele. There be that hath prouided many wayes ere they could take much heere for the setting of the Otter Wele, and here shall follow the saideOtter Wele, with his proportion how to be made and set, the more easier to makethem where as they haue not beene scene before. To know if an Otter do hauntriuer or ponde, you must watch the waters in the night, then shall you heare himplunging and chasing the fish all night by efts and bankes sides, so watch or elseyour fish may be kilde and you know not how nor when. of fishing. 27 Here folloiveth tJie Otter Wek, The fashion of the Otter wele, with two handels aboue the better to lay him, hemust be three quarters and more, betwixt teme, and teme in length. This figure vnder shewes the setting of the gredyeme, before the teme of the. wele, and when he falles, to rest on two stiffe oziars on the lower part of the saydeteme, ye make see aboue : but when ye shall set or tyle the saide gredyeme, it mustbe pluckt vppe aboue the mouth of the Teme, which tenies mouth, all the oziars
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