84 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. 



use tolerably strong tackle. Some Anglers then put 

 on two No. 9 hooks, about ten inches apart, one above 

 the other, with a tolerably heavy float, and let the 

 bottom hook drag two or three inches on the ground, 

 and fish in strong eddies, at mill-tails, &c., and meet 

 with much sport, sometimes taking Trout while so 

 fishing. — Note, cook large Dace same way as direct- 

 ed for Roach, in page 80. 



CHAP. XII. 



The Tench. 



The Tench is generally prized as a fine rich Fish in 

 England, but it is not so much esteemed on the con- 

 tinent : the Germans, in derision, call it the Shoe- 

 maker ; but they are very scarce in most rivers and 

 streams about London 5 some few are taken in the 



