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or bait with which you are fishing, and angle 

 in the same spot, and you will assuredly 

 be rewarded with good sport. There is no 

 better or more successful mode of taking the 

 most crafty tench and carp than this. Indeed, 

 after all other attempts have failed, I have had 

 splendid success in this way. The fish become 

 accustomed to their feeding haunts and feeding 

 hour, and sometimes seize the bait directly it 

 reaches the bottom, just as they would the 

 ground-bait on which they have been fed several 

 times, and partaken of with impunity. 



After a heavy summer-rain, tench may some- 

 times be taken with a small white snail. 



When tench are in shallows, or among weeds, 

 they may be angled for without a float, by 

 merely dropping the bait in the spot where the 

 fish may be ; and this is easily discovered by 

 watching where the weeds move, or bubbles are 

 made, or the water a little clouded. It ie 

 seldom that tench will bite earlier than the 

 month of April or later than October. They 

 spawn in the month of June, and. the latter part 

 of May ; at which time they are out of season, 

 and not very good for the table. 



Tench are not often met with of a larger size 



