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CHARI ER XX. 
BARBEL AND BREAM. 
Habits of barbel and ‘ ground swimmers’ generally. Bottom fishing— 
tackle and baits. Leger fishing and tackle. Ground baits and baiting 
— Worms and clay-balls; how to make and use. Spawning-time. 
Haunts of Barbel—Torpidity in great cold. 
Different species of Bream—Carp Bream; White Bream, or Bream 
flat; Pomeranian Bream ; their habitats, and how to be distinguished. 
Bream fishing in rivers and ponds—Tackle, baits. Ground baits. 
Spawning-time. 
BARBEL. 
THE Barbel is so named from the barbels or beards 
with which its nose and upper lip are furnished, in order 
to assist it in feeling its way about in deep, and conse- 
quently more or less dark waters ; and probably also for 
the purpose of enabling it to detect the nature of the 
substances with which it comes in contact. Of the species 
provided with these barbels—Carp, Tench, Gudgeon, 
Roach, and Turbot, all find their food principally at the 
bottom. The barbels, in fact, afford a correct index to 
the habits of the fish which are thus furnished, and teach 
the angler that in fishing for them his bait must always 
be on or close to the bottom. This rule holds good with 
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