PRACTICAL LESSONS IN ANGLING. 



THE beginner who has made himself acquainted 

 with what I have above stated respecting the food, 

 haunts, and feeding time of fishes, will be in some 

 measure prepared to understand the lessons I now 

 purpose to give, with reference to particular waters, 

 and to various species of fish ; for though some prin- 

 ciples apply generally to all the branches of the art, 

 there are many peculiarities which require to be studied. 

 To some of these I shall direct the special attention of 

 the young angler, and leave him to perfect his skill by 

 practice and experience. I shall arrange my lessons 

 under the several heads of river, canal, pond, lake, 

 and sea-angling. 



RIVER ANGLING. 



THE peculiar character of a river depends upon the 

 sources of its waters, and the sort of country it runs 

 through. The Aar, the Rhine, and other rivers which 

 rise in the Alps, are of a clear bright greenish blue ; the 

 Dee, the Tweed, and others which rise in sub-alpine 

 countries are dark brown, often in floods approaching 

 to black ; and the Thames, the Seine, the Moselle, 

 and the Maese, which derive the greater portion of 

 their waters from a cultivated country, are usually 

 more or less brownish yellow, in consequence of the 

 clay that bemuds their waters. The usual smoothness 



