Editing Fishing line (section)

=== Early lines ===
[[Leonard Mascall]], in his book from 1596 titled "A Booke of fishing with Hooke and Line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging". followed in many ways after Dame Juliana Berners, has an excerpt establishing silk worms in the area of England at that time:

...{{lang|enm|italic=no|"In May, take the stone flye or Caddis worme, and the bobbe worme vnder the Cowtorde: also ye may take the silke worme, and the baite that breedeth on a Fearne leafe."}} ...

And another excerpt explaining compiling a silk leader-line for a catgut fly-line.

{{lang|enm|italic=no|"...whippe it so faire as yee shall see good, then next your hooke at the bought put throw your silke or haire in going round about the hooke three times, then plucke first your silke or haire..."}}

So back then there was silk and horse hair used for angling.

As written in 1667 by [[Samuel Pepys]], the fishing lines in his time were made from [[catgut]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The World Book Encyclopedia Volume 7|publisher=Field Enterprises Educational Corp.|year=1968}}</ref> Later, silk fishing lines were used around 1724.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The World Book Encyclopedia Volume 7|publisher=Field Enterprises Educational Corp.|year=1968}}</ref>