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will any of them do very well for the Purpofe. 

 After the fame Manner you may catch a Trout 

 in a hot Evening, When as you walk by a 

 Brook, you fee or hear him leap at Flies, if you 

 then get a Grafshopper^ and put it on a Hook, 

 with your Line about two Yards long, ftand-- 

 ing behind a Bufh or Tree where his Hole is, 

 and make your Bait ftir up and down on the 

 Top of the Water, you may, if you (land 

 clofe, be fure of a Bite, but not fure to catch- 

 him, becaufe he is not, as the Chuh^ a Leather- 

 mouth'd Fifh. After this Manner you may 

 iifh for him with almoft any kind of live F/y, 

 but with nothing fo fuccefsful as a Grafshopper^ 



As we have frequent Occafion to ufe this 

 Term Leather- moutlfd^ it may here be proper, 

 before we proceed, to explain what Anglers 

 mean by that Word. Leather- mouth'' d Fiflk are 

 fuch as have their Teeth in their Throat, a- 

 mong which are the Chuh^ the Barhel^ ' the 

 Gudgeon,, the Carp^ and divers others. The 

 Hook being ftuck into the Leather, or Skin 

 of the Mouth of fuch Fifh, feldom or never 

 lofes its Hold : But on the contrary, a P'lke^ 

 a Perch^ or a Trout^ and fome other Fifh, 

 which have not their Teeth in their Throats, 

 but in their Mouths, the Hook never takes 

 fuch fure Hold of them, but you often lofe 

 your Prey, unlefs he has intirely gorged it. 



Jn March and April the Chub is ufually taken 

 with Worms \ in May^ June^ and July^ he 

 will bite at any /'/>', or at Cherries^ or at 

 Beetles with their Legs and Wings cut off, 



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