THE TENCH/ 



LTHOUGH not of the same genus, yet 

 belonging notably to the same family, the 

 Tench follows the Carp with the same 

 sort of propriety as that which almost 

 invariably links together the names of the Salmon 

 and Trout in our fishing books and manuals of 

 ichthyology. The fish are constantly found in the 

 same localities — indeed, I scarcely know a pond 

 containing the Tench which does not also contain 

 one or other variety of the Carp, — they are both 

 equally long-lived out of water, their habits and 

 food are the same — the modes of fishing for them 

 are the same, and the bait most successfully used 

 for catching the one will very frequently bring the 

 other floundering up out of the mud. 



And yet, strange to say, in not a few points it 

 would be difficult to find two fish more dissimilar. 

 The Carp, for instance, has the largest scaling of 

 any of the fish composing the grouja of which it is 

 the type, whilst the scales of the Tench are 



' Ti/iai Vulgaris. Tinea, the Tench, vulgaris, common, Lat. 



