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particularly in the Frisch and Curisch-hafl', wliere 

 they are taken of a vast size. They live to a great 

 age, and grow almost to an incredible weight. 



A carp weighing fifteen pounds seven ounces, 

 was some time back taken out of the water in 

 Lord Exeter's grounds at Burghley. 



The hooks for this fish No. 3 or 4. 



In fine sun-sliiny days, carps will often prime 

 about noon, and swim about the edges of a 

 pond, to catch such fiies as fall upon the surface 

 of the water: let the angler tlien lake a strong 

 rod, and pliable at the top, a strong line, and a 

 hook large enough for a lob-worm'^ then finding 

 a place free from weeds, about the compass of 

 the crown of a hat, let him drop his bait without 

 a float, and with only one large shot upon the 

 line, which he must lodge upon the leaf of some 

 adjoining weed, so that the bait may not be 

 above eight inches in the water; then retiring, 

 but so as to l:eep his eye upon the shot, let him 

 wait till he sees it taken away, with about a foot 

 of the line, and then strike : when he has hooked 

 his fish, let him keep him tii^ht, and not suffer 

 him to entano^le himself amons: the weeds: but 

 either draw him out by main force, or pull him 

 into a clear place and there kill him. 



N.B. The forea:oinf:r method is an excellent 

 one, and gjcat number* of carp may be taken by 

 it in ponds which are well stocked. 



The hook No. J. 



CYPJljyUS LATUSANT BRUM A, 



Tlie Brccnn; he spawns in June; his chief re- 

 sidence is in ponds; he is a bony fish and very 

 slow in growth. T ro»n Saint Jamcs\ tide to I3ar- 

 iliolomcii) tide is the best time to angle for hitn, 



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