78 best's art of angling. 



PISCIS ACULEJTUS rULGJTlIS, SEU PUNGITIUS 



ytLBERTI, 



The Stlck/ehack, Sharp/? ng, or Banstickk ; this 

 fish, with three names, as he is called by in difte- 

 rent counties, is a small prickly fish, and not 

 worth the angler's notice, in regard to himself, 

 but that he is an excellent bait for the trout, who 

 will take it sooner than the minnow. His prickles 

 must be broke off, and baited accordin'j; to the 

 directions given for baiting the minnow, under 

 the description of the trout. 



In the fens of Lincolnshire, they are found in 

 such numbers, that they are used to manure the 

 land. There are three species of them, the 

 common, or ihree spined, the ten spin ed, and the 

 Jifteenspined. The two first seldom reach the 

 ienoth of two inches, the latter sometimes grows 

 to that of six, and is found in the sea only. 



N.B. The tackle, baits, 8cc. for this fish, and 

 the foregoing ones, must be the same, and very 

 finv'^. 



There are three fishes which I omitted in the 

 first edition, and what ans>lers in sieneral seldom 

 meet with, because they are local, and peculiar 

 to certain w'aters ; but as they are held in high 

 estimation v.here they are taken, I shall de- 

 scribe them as well as 1 can for the reader's infor- 

 mation. 



^ALBULA SALMON I SI MI LIS, 



The Guiiiuiad ; according to Camden and others, 

 IS peculiar to Pemb/e-Mere in Cheshire. ^^ The 



* Hiilie-icater fishermen, in 1775, took near eight thougasd 

 at G»ie iiraugiit. it is abcHt ckveu inches lon^. 



