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to it; and it will prevent its growing black. 

 Wheat, or maltf boiled soft in milk, and the husk 

 taken off, a good bait either in winter or sum- 

 mer. The anl-fiy, found in June, July, August 

 and the beginning of September, in mole-hills 

 or ant-nests, where they breed ; take some of the 

 earth, and the roots of the grass w^hich grow 

 upon it, and put all in a glass bottle, then gather 

 some of the largest and blackest ant flies, and 

 put them into the bottle; these are a deadly bait 

 for roach, dace, and chub; you must angle with 

 them under water a hand's breadth from the 

 bottom. The young brood of wasps, hornets, 

 and humble-bees, are likewise very good. Also 

 minnows, loaches, sharplings, and bull-heads. 

 Snails, black and white,- the black ones bellies 

 slit to shew the white. Likewise cherries, black- 

 berries, cheese kept a day or two in wet rags, 

 which makes it tough, or steeped in a little 

 honey. Also salmon spawn, which must be 

 boiled till it is hard enougli to stick on the 

 hook; and if you wish to preserve it, sprinkle a 

 little salt over it, and get a glazed earthen pot, 

 and put a layer of wool at the bottom of it, and 

 then a little salmon spawn upon that; then wool 

 again, and then spawn, and so proceed alter- 

 nately till the pot is filled : it is a most destruc- 

 tive bait in the winter and spring, especially if 

 angled with where salmon a.e known to spawn ; 

 for there every kind of fish resort in order to 

 devour it. 



Let all the baits for the Pike be alive on the 

 morning you use them; for stale ones, will not 

 entice him so soon. The best baits aie gudgeons, 

 roach, small dace, and bleak. It is a common 

 notion that the pike will not attack the perch, 

 being fearful of the spiny fins, v. hich the perch 



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