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other. Five or fix may be caught thus at one 

 Time, if you bait with Gentles^ than which 

 nothing is better. You may angle deeper for 

 them in the Sanies than in any other River. 



Or this Fifli may be caught with a fine 

 artificial Fly, of a fad brown Colour, very 

 fmall, and the Hook anfwerable. There is 

 no better Sport than whipping for Bleaks in a 

 Boat, or on a Bank in the fwift Water in a 

 Summer's Evening, with a Hazle-top, about 

 iive or fix Foot long, and a Line twice the 

 Length of the Rod. 



There are (if any Credit may be given to 

 Report) many who in Italy will catch Swal- 

 lows thus, but more efpecially Martens, This 

 Bird-Angler Hands on the Top of a Steeple to 

 do it, and with a Line twice as long as I have 

 fpoken of. AHerriy that conftantly frequent- 

 ed one Place, has been caught flying, with a 

 Hook baited with a big Minnow or fmall 

 Gudgeon, The Line and Hook muft be ftrong, 

 and tied to fome loofe Staff, fo big that fhe 

 cannot fly away with it, and the Line not 

 exceeding two Yards. 



The Sea-Bleak is preferred to the River, be- 

 caufe the latter are faid to be fometimes mad 

 in Summer, by Reafon of a Worm in their 

 Stomachs. Gentles^ the Dub- Fly ^ and the fame 

 Baits as are good for Roach, will fucceed with 

 the Bleak. But the Fly yields the greatefl 

 Pleafure, and therefore that alone is remember- 

 ed in our Verfes. 



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