They vse also to poche them with an instrument somewhat
like the Sammon-speare.
Of Eeles there are two sorts: the one Valsen, of best taste, coming
from the fresh riuers, when the great raine floods after September
doe breake their beds, and carry them into the sea: the other, bred
in the salt water, & called a Conger Eele, which afterwards, as his
bignes increaseth, ventreth out into the maine Ocean, & is
enfranchised a Burgesse of that vast common wealth: but in harbor
they are taken mostly by Spillers made of a cord, [32] many fathoms
in length, to which diuers lesser and shorter are tyed at a little
distance, and to each of these a hooke is fastened with bayt: this
Spiller they sincke in the sea where those Fishes haue their
accustomed haunt, and the next morning take it vp againe with the
beguiled fish.
For catching of Whiting and Basse, they vse a thred, so named,
because it consisteth of a long smal lyne with a hooke at the end,
which the Fisherman letteth slip out of his hand by the Boat side to
the bottom of the water, and feeling the fish caught by the sturring
of the lyne, draweth it vp againe with his purchase.
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