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and therefore requires less patience in the angler 

 than care not to lose him, through the tender- 

 ness of his mouth. The fly used cannot be too 

 small for him. This fish abounds in our nor- 

 thern rivers, especially the Humber ; and the 

 Severn and Wye contain many fine ones. 

 Many trouts are taken in hot weather by 

 tickling them as they lie under the hollow banks 

 of small streams ; and pikes as they bask at the 

 surface in the sunshine are caught by a noose 

 of fine wire, or horse hair at the end of a rod ; 

 practices which, although not reckoned very 

 sportsmanlike, have perhaps quite as much 

 sport in them as if they were. The chub now 

 will take any fly, or cherries, or beetles with 

 the legs and wings cut off; but above all, a 

 grasshopper on the surface, or at the bottom a 

 young humble-bee, such as is found in the 

 mowing grass ; but he is a fearful fish, and re- 

 quires stillness and secrecy in the angler. The 

 carp is found in the deepest holes of ponds or 

 rivers, beneath banks, roots of trees, etc., and 

 is taken early or late in the day with worm, 

 paste, grub, green peas, cherries, or a grass- 

 hopper at the bottom. The salmon now makes 

 glorious fishing with the fly in our northern 



