Also many pool fishes will bite best at noontime.

And if at any time of the day you see the trout or grayling leap, angle for him with an artificial fly appropriate to that same month.

And where the water ebbs and flows, the fish will bite in some place at the ebb, and in some place at the flood. After that, they will rest behind stakes and arches of bridges and other places of that sort.

Here you should know in what weather you must angle: as I said before, in a dark, lowering day when the wind blows softly. And in summer season when it is burning hot, then it is no good. From September until April on a fair, sunny day, it is right good to angle.And if the wind in that season comes from any part of the east: the weather then is no good. And when it snows or hails, or there is a great tempest, with thunder or lightning, or sweltering hot weather, then it is no good for angling.

Now you must know that there are twelve kinds of impediments which cause a man to take no fish, without other common causes that may happen by chance.

The first is if your tackle is not adequate nor suitably made.

The second is if your baits are not good or fine.

The third is if you do not angle in biting time.

The fourth is if the fish are frightened by the sight of a man.

The fifth, if the water is very thick: white or red from any recent flood.

The sixth, if the fish cannot stir because of the cold.

The seventh, if the weather is hot.