In the same season, take a good rod of green hazel, and soak it even and straight and let it dry with the staff. And when they are dry, make the rod fit the hole in the staff, into half the length of the staff.

And to make the other half of the top section, take a fair shoot of blackthorn, crabtree, medlar, or juniper, cut in the same season: and well soaked and straight.

And bind them together neatly so that the top section may go exactly all the way into the said hole.

Then shave your staff down and make it taper. Then bind the staff at both ends with long hoops of iron or fasten in the neatest manner, with a spike in the lower end fastened with a catch so that you can take your top section in and out.

Then set your upper section a handbreadth inside the other end of your staff in such a way that the thickness of the sections matches.

Bind your top section at the other end as far down as the joint with a cord of six hairs.
Fix the cord and tie it firmly at the top, with a loop to fasten on your fishing line.

And so you will make yourself a rod so secret that you can walk with it, and no one will know what you are doing.

It will be light and well balanced to fish with as you wish. And for your greater convenience, here is a picture of it as an example: