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(perhaps with some truth) frequently charged to the 

 character of Sportsmen. 



January. — The only Fish that will take a bait this 

 month, are Jack, Pike, Chub, and Roach, and, in some 

 tide-rivers. Flounders, and Eels ; for which you may 

 angle an hour or two in the middle of the day, provided 

 the water is sufficiently clear, and tolerably free from 

 Ice. 



February. — In the latter end of this month, if the 

 weather be mild for the season. Carp, Perch, Roach, 

 Chub, Flounders, and Eels, as well as Jack and Pike, 

 will feed , Jack and Pike prefer live-baits, at this sea- 

 son. Fish only in the middle of the day, and in eddies 

 near the banks, for Fish always get to the scowers and 

 shallows, and near the banks, after Winter, and remain 

 there till after they have spawned. All fresh-water 

 Fish move, during this and the following month, from 

 their Winter quarters, and few of them will refuse a 

 lively worm until June. 



March. — During this month. Jack, Pike, Carp, Perch, 

 Roach, Dace, Chub, Gudgeon, and Minnows, will take 

 a bait : still continue to use a live bait for Jack gene- 

 rally, and prefer the middle of the day. Angle in the 

 shallows and eddies, near the banks ; for Dace, in shal- 

 low currents, and, especially, at the tail of mills, in 

 strong eddies. Jack, Pike, Smelts, Flounders, Bleak, 

 and Perch, spawn in this month. Carp leave the deeps 

 now in search of the fresh grass that begins to grow 

 on the shallows, and, also, the small rushes which begin 

 to shoot on the sides and banks of rivers, ponds, &c- 



