BREAM, RED EYE, &C. 115 



tlie middle of the day, during Summer months, unless 

 it blow fresh, or when warm rain descends ; they will 

 then take a bait freely all day, especially if the place 

 have been well ground-baited the night before ; two red 

 worms, put on the hook, or one well-scowered marsh 

 worm, is the best bait for Bream, generally speakings 

 they will take gentles, and sometimes paste, and also 

 wheat and malt slightly baked or parboiled. When 

 you angle for Bream in a river fish out further in the 

 stream than when angling for Roach, and immediately 

 you observe a bite, strike. If you be angling in quite 

 still water, you may use two rods and lines, to which 

 put small cork floats 3 cast the baited hook a good 

 way in the water, having first plumbed the depth j 

 the bait should hang just clear of the ground, that a 

 gentle breeze may slowly move it 3 lay the rod over 

 some rushes, or sags 3 if those be not there, fix a 

 branch of tree with a forked top close to the water, 

 and let the rod rest on it 3 stand back, and wait pa- 

 tiently and quietly for a bite 3 by this method, where 

 Bream are plentiful, you may soon fill a basket, for 

 they are a free-biting Fish, and, though generally 

 considered of little worth, they afford much amuse- 

 ment to the Angler in bends and broad still parts of 

 rivers, and not very deep places^, where the Bream 

 like to resort to most. 



Remarks on Bream, 



The Bream is a very broad Fish, with scales some- 

 what like the Carp, but lighter in colour, and, when 



