108 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING 



shine on the part of the water where you cast your 

 flies, and you may take two or three at a time. This 

 sport will continue as long as day light will permit 

 you to see the flies. In the same manner dace will 

 also rise at the ant-fly upon the surface of the water, if 

 used in a morning at the foot of a current or mill-stream. 

 If you angle where two mill-streams are going at the 

 same time, let it be in the eddy between the two streams. 

 First use the plummet ; if the water is deep, angle 

 within a foot of the bottom, but if it proves to be 

 shallow, that is, about the depth of two feet, or not 

 exceeding three, the sport maybe better; bait your 

 hooks with three large gentles, use a cork float, be very 

 attentive, and strike at the first bite ; if there are any 

 large dace in the mill pool, they will resort to the eddy 

 between the two streams. 



A species of fish called the graining, similar to dace, 

 is found in the Mersey in Lancashire. 



The roach l , though very bony, makes good soup. 

 Roach fishing, in the Thames, commences about the 

 end of August. Great shoals of them come annually 

 up the Clyde and into Loch Lomond and its tributary 

 streams. It is a simpleton of a fish, easily caught, and 

 therefore affording small sport to the angler when any 

 other is to be had. It will, however, rise at a fly, and 

 is to be fished for precisely like dace. 



ANGLING FOR BARBEL. 



The barbel 2 is not esteemed for the table ; but af- 



(1) In Latin, Leuciscus rutilus. 



(2) In Latin, Barbus vulgaris. 



