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APRIL. 



ANGLING. 



Grayling, perch, dace, are not in best season, 

 nor chub till the middle of the month: nor 

 barbel during the latter half of it. Salmon is 

 improving; and trout comes in and may be 

 sought in his beautiful clear streams with a 

 minnow, or palmer-worm, or with the fly. 

 The chub takes the worm, and the pike the 

 lob-worm, minnow, or other small fish. The 

 tench is a lively prey, this month, baiting with 

 a good worm. Cotton says the grayling is 

 never out of season, and reckons him yet a 

 winter-fish. Walton declares him to be "a 

 pleasant fish and a jolly in mid April and May, 

 and in the hot months." Flies ; all those of 

 March ; also small bright brown ; dark brown ; 

 from the 6th to the 10th the violet fly ; about 

 the 12th the little wheeling dun; yellow dun; 

 little brown; about the 20th, the horsefly to 

 the end of the month. 



