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Angler by their violent struggling, if he have hooked a 

 heavy Fish. If you cast among those weeds a few 

 slices of bread, a few hours before you begin to angle, 

 it will keep the Carp to the place. When you fish 

 with a floated line, in a pond, for Carp, prefer the shal- 

 low parts, and especially where you find that a stream 

 or ditch runs into it j those parts the Carp resort to 

 till after they spawn ; then you may fish in deep 

 water, about flood-gates and piles. In Flanders, the 

 usual baits for Carp are the inside of cherries, or half- 

 boiled potatoes. 



Remarks on Carp. 



Writers on Natural History say, that Carp are a 

 long-lived Fish, and will continue to cast their spawn 

 for more than thirty years, and that they grow to tlie 

 length of a yard, &c. The largest that I ever saw, 

 was one that was taken out of the basin facing Tilney 

 House, in Wanstead Park 3 the Carp had much wasted, 

 apparently to me from age, but it then weighed 

 eighteen pounds. In respect to the taming and feed- 

 ing of Carp from the hand, which the writers on Na- 

 tural History give many singular accounts of, as Carp 

 coming to the call or whistle of persons giving them 

 food, &c., I doubt not the fact, because I know a 

 gentleman at Maidstone who has a pond which con- 

 tains many Carp ; those Carp have been in the habit, 

 for years, to come near the sides of the bank to take 

 pieces of bread, which are narrow pieces of crumb, 

 and held to them just below the surface of the water ; 



