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If you are out in a bad day, and the perch will not 

 bite, slip your float up the line near to the point of 

 your rod, or take it off, and begin to rove for them 

 thus : let down the line longer than the rod, or as long 

 as you can properly throw it out, without injuring 

 your bait, (which should be worms,) and throw it 

 sometimes right across the water, sometimes up, and 

 at others down, and in all directions, drawing the bait 

 towards you, and playing it with the same motion as 

 you would spin a minnow; so keep moving about, 

 angling in such places as you think proper. When a 

 fish takes the bait, slacken the line, and give him 

 time before you strike. 



POND ANGLING. 



SEVERAL of the fish which 1 have already mentioned 

 are kept or found in ponds, particularly perch. Trout 

 will not thrive in ponds unless there is a stream of 

 water running through them ; and pike and eels are in 

 general too voracious to permit other fish to live. I shall 

 here mention three pond fish, carp, tench, and bream. 



ANGLING FOR CARP. 



The carp l thrives best in ponds with a rich marly 

 or clayey bottom, and an overhanging shade of trees. 

 The best months for carp fishing are from the 1 Oth of 

 April till July, using for baits red earth-worms, caddis- 

 worms, grasshoppers, or, what is excellent, boiled 

 green peas. 



(1) In Latin, Cyprinus Carpiu. 



