Chap. 5>. Of the BREAM. ao; 



mud be firfl taken. For the mofl Part you 

 will find them very large. They repair to 

 the Ground-bait, not that they will eat of it, 

 but to feed and fport amongft the young Fry, 

 that gather about and hover ov^er the Bait. 



The Way to difcover the Pike and to 

 take him, if you millruft your Bream- 

 Hook, may be thus ; Take a fmall Bleak, 

 a Roach, or Gudgeon^ and plant it alive 

 among your Rods two Foot deep from the 

 Cork, with a little Red-worm on the Point 

 of the Hook : Then take a few Crumbs of 

 White-bread, or fome of the Ground-bait, and 

 fprinkle it gently amongfl your Rods. If the 

 Pike be there, the little Fifh will skip out of 

 the Water at his Appearance \ but the live- 

 fet Bait is fure to be taken. 



You may continue your Sport Trom four in 

 the Morning till eight ; and if it be a gloomy, 

 v/indy Day, they will bite all Day long. But 

 this is too long to ftand to your Rods at 

 one Place, and it will fpoil your Evening 

 Sport that Day, which is this. 



About four o' Clock in the Afternoon repair 

 to your baited Place, and as foon as you come 

 to the Watcr-fide, cad in one half of the reft 

 of your Ground-bait, and ftand off: Then, 

 whilft the Fifti are gathering together, you may 

 repofe yourfelf fo long as the ftnoking a Pipe 

 of Tobacco. Then put in your three Rods as 

 in the Morning, and you will find excellent 

 Sport till eight o' Clock : When you go away, 

 caft in the Refidue of your Ground-bait, and 

 next Morning by four o' Clock vifit them a- 



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