Chap. 5. Of the P E R C H. ig^ 



bout two in the Afternoon till about fix, and 

 Ibmetimes later, efpecially in hot Weather. 



If there be thirty or forty of them in a Hole, 

 they may be at one Standing all catched one 

 after another. They are not like the folitary 

 Pike^ but love to accompany one another, and 

 march together in Troops -, as all Fifh that 

 have Scales are obfcrved to do. 



The Perch is very ftrong, and will contend 

 hard and long for his Life. He fpawns but 

 once a Year, and that about February oxMarch, 



He will bite at a JVorm^ a Minnozv^ or a 

 little Frog \ of which you may find many in 

 Hay-time : Of Worms^ the Lobworm^ or the 

 Brandlings I take to be the beft, being well 

 fcoured in Mofs or Fennel \ and next the 

 Worm that lies under a Cow-turd with a blewifh 

 Tail. He will alfo take the Red-worm and 

 the 'Dew-worm, If you angle for a Perch 

 with a Minnow^ it is beft your Bait be alive, 

 fticking your Hook through his Back Fin : 

 Or a Minnow may be hooked in his upper Lip, 

 and fufFered to fwim up and down about Mid- 

 water, or a little lower, ftill keeping him to 

 about that Depth, by a Float, which ought 

 not to be a very litde one. The fame Method 

 is to be obferved when you fifh with a fmall 

 Frogs your Hook being faftened through the 

 Skin of his Leg, towards the upper Part of it. 



When the Perch bites, be fure you give him 

 Time enongh to pouch the Hook, for there 

 was fcarce ever any Angler that gave him 

 too much. Some, in angling for Perch, will 



fuffer 



