76 best's art of angling. 



an excellent fish to initiate a youno; anirler in 

 fti/-fishi]igy by his wliipping for them in a hot 

 summer's evening, with a small artificial black 

 gnat. Your tackle must be fine and neatly 

 formed. He is a-capital bait for the pike. 



Hook, No. 13 



The bleak seldom exceeds five or six inches in 

 length; artificial pearls are made with the scales 

 of this fish, and of the dace. They are beaten 

 into a fine powder, then diluted witii water, and 

 nitroduced into a thin glsiss bubble, which is 

 afterwards filled with wax. The French were 

 the inventors of this art. Dr. Lister, says, that 

 when he was at Paris, a certain artist used in one 

 winter, thirty hampers full of fish in this manu- 

 fact lire. 



VARJUSy SEU FH 07^ IN us L/EVIS) 



The Mill rtor0 or Pitik: thou<yh one of the 

 sm.Uiest fishes, is as excellent a fish to eat as any 

 of the most famed. They are generally found 

 in March and April, and remain till the cold wea- 

 ther compels them to retire to their winter-quar- 

 ters. He is of a greenish, or wavy sky colour, his 

 belly very white, liis back blackish; and is a most 

 excellent bait for any of the fish of prey: namely, 

 the pike, trout, perch, ^c. His baits are small 

 red-worms, n^asp^, cads, <kc. If you can catch 

 enough of them, they will make an excellent tan- 

 sey, theirheadsand tails being cut oif; and fried in 

 eggs, with a sauce made of butter, sugar, and 

 veijuice. I'he smalles' of hooks. Tlie minnow 

 is a most killing bait iur the large trout, perch, 

 iind chub. 



