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what the French call him, un vilain, that is, a 

 downright chaw-bacon or clod-hopper. Though 

 Mr A. Soyer, of the Eeform Club, should con- 

 descend to dress him, I doubt whether he would 

 make him fit to appear at any dinner-table. 



This fair outside and foul inside beauty spawns 

 in April, and is soon in its usual condition. In 

 the summer and autumn months it will take very 

 wantonly artificial flies, large red hackles, and 

 large palmers of different colours. In the evening 

 it can be readily seduced by artificial moths. Its 

 angling value rests on its occasional fondness for 

 artificial insects. I have caught dozens of them 

 in a few hours with large red and furnace hackles. 

 They are very fond of imitations of the humble 

 bee and large blow-fly. In dibbing for them, use 

 the grasshopper, cockchafer, and small butterflies. 

 In bottom-fishing for them use worms; but in 

 the hot months they are fondest of gentles and 

 prepared cheese. They will also take pastes and 

 salmon-roe with great gusto. In rivers that breed 

 the lamprey that species of eel will be found a 

 very deadly bait for chub and trout. Salmon 

 will take it also. Put the lamprey on your hook 

 as you would a worm. Fish without a float, with 

 a No. 3 hook and salmon gut, one duck shot 

 to be placed on the gut, about a foot from the 

 hook. The bait is to be worked with the current, 

 and sometimes slowly across and against it at 



