72 BliSr's AHT OF ANGLING. 



lions 2:iven fof- one will serve for the other. 

 They spawn about the midrlle of March^ and 

 Avill take any fly, especially the stonecadew-Jh/, 

 ]SI(iy-Jiyy the latter end of April and most part 

 of May; and the ant-Jly in June, July, and 

 August. When you angle for the dace with 

 the ant-fly under water, let it be about wo 

 hands breadth from the ground. They never 

 refuse a fly in a warm day on the top of 

 the water. The best bait for them in the winter, 

 is the earth hoh, it is the spawn of the beetle, 

 and is to be found by following the plough in 

 sandyish grounds; put them into a vessel with 

 some of the earth from whence the v are taken, and 

 nsethem all the winter as an excellent bait, as I 

 have before mentioned in the description of baits. 

 As for your line, &c. the directions given for the 

 roach, will serve in all respects for the dace or 

 dare. 



Dace may be also taken with flesh-flies, upon 

 the sarface of the water ; into whose backs, be- 

 tween the wings, you must put your hook, which 

 should be very small : they bite in the morning 

 and evening ; 3^ou nmst then provide a cane-rod, 

 whicliis tlie lisihtest of ativ, and let it be seven- 

 teen feet, at least, in lengvh, and your line, which 

 should from the middle downwards, consist of 

 single-hairs, be a little longer than your rod; 

 then provide a sulTicient qiuintity of liomeflies, 

 which keep in a phial, stopped with a cork. With 

 these repair, especially about seven or eight 

 o'clock ilia summer's evening, to a mill-streamy 

 and having fixed three or four hooks, with single 

 haii:^links, not above four inches long to your 

 line, bait them with the flies, and angle up the 

 surface of the water on the smoothest part, at 

 the end of the stream ; the dace will rise freely, 



