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from the shortness of line, and that being over the 

 Fish, for Fish bite (or suck in) and blow out of their 

 mouth what they dislike, so quick, in a stream, that 

 those who angle with much slack line, lose, perhaps, 

 two bites, or Fish, out of three. 



When your rod has been in the rain (or, from any 

 other cause, got wet) the joints are apt to swell, so 

 that you cannot separate them. Application must be 

 then made to heat ; hold the joint of the rod over 

 the flame of a lighted candle, the wet will soon begin 

 to ooze out from between the joints, and they are 

 then easily parted. AVhen a candle is not to be had, 

 a piece of lighted brown paper may do. 



If, when angling for Carp, Chub, Roach, or Perch, 

 and after having hooked a Fish, he break away, little 

 sport is to be expected in the place where you lost 

 him (especially if a large one, and you have played 

 him some time) ; for, when free from the hook, through 

 fright and pain it rushes violently away, which alarms 

 the others : in such case, immediately cast in a good 

 store of ground-bait, or move to another place. — 

 Note, when casting in ground-bait (especially for 

 Carp and Chub) throw in small pieces, and as gently 

 as possible, for those Fish are soon alarmed, and, 

 when so, seldom take a bait again that day. 



A\Tien angling in a water that you have no local 

 knowledge of, fish in the eddies, or at meeting of two 

 streams, around piles about bridges, locks, mill-tails, 

 pools, wears, deep dark holes, and flood-gates. 



When angling in a river, or any other water, for 



