74 best's art of angling, 



at ground, without you use a ground-bnit, the at- 

 tempt is almost useless; after great heats, when 

 the weather gets cool, you will be sure to have 

 good sport. 



The hooks, No. 11 or 12. 



GOBI us FLUriJTILISf ^ 



The Gudgeon ; is a fish that affords the young 

 angler an amazing deal of diversion ; being one 

 that bites very free, and when struck is never lost, 

 because he is a hather-mouthed fish. I'hey spawn 

 three or four times in the summer, and their feed- 

 ing is like the barbel's, in the streams and on 

 gravel, slighting all manner of files. Their baits 

 are chiefly wtisps, gentles, and cads, but the small 

 red-worm is best. When you angle for them, be 

 provided with & gudgeon-rake ^ with which rake 

 the ground every ten minutes, which gathers 

 them together, A single-haired line is best, with 

 a quill or cork float, according to the rapidity of 

 the stream ; your hook. No. 8 or 9, and your 

 bait on the ground. You ma}^ angle for him 

 with a running line, by hand, v.ithout a float. 



The gudgeon is of a small size; those few, 

 however, that are caught in the Kennet and Cole, 

 are three times the weight of thos« taken else- 

 where. One was once taken near Uxbridge, 

 that weighed half a pound. 



The author " On uins^ling in the Hirer Tre7it," 

 eives us a new method of catchins: them : he 

 first desires us, ^^ never to continue in the neater 

 long, though he has been in it for six hours toge^ 

 ther ;" he then observes with his usual circum- 

 spection, " that the best wai/ of catching them, is 

 bt/ going into the water, and stirring up the sand 

 0nd graveW* This surely may be termed gud- 



