(y2 best's art of angling. 



They spawn the beginning of Juii/: the pro- 

 per time to angle for thein is early and late in the 

 months of May, June, the latter end of July, 

 and in August. You must use a strong line with 

 gut at bottom. The hook, No. 2 or 3, and a 

 quill float; the depth about two feet. He bites 

 "best at red-worms, if you dip them first in tar ; 

 at all sorts of pafstemade up with strong-bcented 

 oils, and at one made with the inside of a roll, 

 and honey. Also at cad-worms, lob-worms, ^/iag- 

 worms, gentles, marsh-worms, and soft boiled 

 bread-orrain. Besides the river Slour in Dorset- 

 shire, so particularly recommended for plenty of 

 tench and eels, there is BrecknockMere, in Breck- 

 nockshire, being two miles in length, and as much 

 in breadth, full of perches, tenches, and eels. 



N. B. One river tench is worth te?ipond. 



PASSER FLUf][ATJLJS SIVE JMPJI IBIOUS, 



The Flo?mder* ; may be fished for all day, 

 either in swift streams, or in the still deep, but 

 best in the stream, in the months of April, May, 

 June and July. Your line must be a single-haired 

 one, with a small doat, and the hook, Ino. 6 or 7. 

 Let your bait touch the ground, wliich may 

 be any sort of small worms, wasps, or gentles. 

 He beins: a fish but seldom taken with the rod 

 and line, to enlarge on the subje>ct would be to- 

 tally unnecessar3\ 



CAPITO SEU CEPHALUS, 



The Ch.nh ; is a fish by no means in very much 

 esteem, his tlesh being very coarse, and full of 



* The Flounder and all its extensive g;cr.us, of flat fish ; are 

 distinguished from all others by one invariable characteristic, 

 yiz. tliut of having both the eyes on the same side the iiead. 



