S4'ne B.RITISH ANGLER. P.I. 



]ocks : Put all into a large Glafs Bottle^ and 

 then gather a great Quantity of the blackeft 

 Ant-flies, handling their Bodies and Wings 

 tenderly, as not in the lead to bruife them : 

 Put them into your Bottle (or into a Firkin^ if 

 you would keep them long) firft waflied with 

 Honey^ or Water and Honey, Thefe, in any 

 Stream and clear Water, are a mortal Bait 

 for Roach ^ Dace^ and Chub -, and you muft 

 angle with them under the Water, no lefs than 

 a Handful from the Bottom. 



Take an Ant-fly or May-fly^ and fink him 

 with a little Lead to the Bottom, near the Piles 

 of a Bridge, Pofts of a Wier or Flood-gate, 

 or any other deep Place, where Roaches lie 

 quietly, and then pull your Fly up very lei- 

 furely, and ufually a Roach will follow your 

 Bait to the very Top of the Water, and gaze 

 on it there, and then run at it eagerly, left the 

 Fly efcape him. Perhaps any other Fly may 

 have the fame EfFedl, but 1 have tried only 

 thefe. The Ant-fly may be kept alive, as is 

 before direded, two or three Months, Ant- 

 flies are not always of the very fame Colour, 

 fome being Z'/^^/^i/^, oihQxsreddiJhy and others 

 of other Hues. 



It will be no unpleafant DigrefTion in this 

 Place, to make a few Obfervations on that 

 fmally but naturally wife^ induftrious^ and po- 

 litick Creature, the Ant^ or Pifmire^ of which 

 our Ant-fly is bred. It is obferved to gather 

 its Food in Summer, in the Full, and to reft 

 in the New Moons. They live together like 



