Tui-: POPE, Xc. 7 3 



ifp.ou-hiDitnig iiKjie than gudgeon -fishing : Ferhajtx 

 they are of a diffeient species in the Trent tJiun in 

 Thames, S^c. d^'c. // 



PERCA FLUriATILlS, MINOR SEU AURATA, 



The Pope or Raff \ this fish with m double 

 name, is small, and rarely grovvs bigger than u 

 gudgeon ; in shape very like the perch, but is 

 better food, being in the taste as pleasant as any 

 iish whatever. 



It is armed with spines like the perch, but 

 has only one back fin. It is of a dirty green 

 almost transparent, and spotted with black. It 

 seldom exceeds six inches in length. 



His haunts me in the deepest running parts of 

 a gravelly river, the exact bottom Vv hereof, having 

 found by plumbing, bait your hooks with small 

 red-TCOrnis or brandlings ; for you may ani>le with 

 two or three, and have excellent sport. He bites 

 very grecdilj^, and as they swim in shoaN, you 

 may catch twenty or thirty at one standing, ia 

 a cool, gloomy day. Always bait the ground 

 with earth, and use the same tackle as for the 

 gudgeon. The river Yare in i^offolky is almost 

 peculiar for plenty of ruffs. 



Hook, No. 9. 



ALBURN us J 



The Bleak or Biet/; on account of Its eager- 

 ness to catch flies, is called bv some tlie river- 

 srcallozo, and by others tiie Jresh-fiater sprat j 

 bec^ause of its resemblance to ihe sea-sprat. Lie 

 bites very eagerly at all sorts of wonns, ^/iies, 

 pastes, and sheep's blood. You may fish for him 

 v.ith six or seven small hooks at a time. He is 



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