44 THE FISHING-ROD; 



It is useless to angle for carp in cold or 

 windy weather; indeed, the weather must be 

 warm, and little or no wind. In warm weather 

 carp are much in the habit of moving out of 

 deep water into shallow places among weeds : 

 and in ponds they sometimes venture into 

 places where there is scarcely water to cover 

 their backs : they may then be taken without a 

 float, by merely dropping the bait near them : 

 their whereabouts may be easily discovered, and 

 they may sometimes be heard sucking the 

 roots of the weeds, or seen as they move their 

 tails and stir the mud. There is no fish so 

 fond of warm sun as carp. It is for the 

 purpose of sunning themselves that they creep 

 out of deep water into the shallowest places 

 in the pond : and apparently for the same 

 purpose, they may often be seen on warm 

 sunny days leaping out of the water, a foot 

 or two above the surface. 



When fishing for carp with paste, let the 

 hook be completely buried or hidden in the 

 bait : and though the piece be as large in size 

 as a horse-bean, the carp, when inclined to bite, 

 will take and swallow it. Large carp do not 

 nibble, but suck in and swallow the bait, and 



