132 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part I. 



in the eyes. Salvian takes him to be called Umber 

 from his swift swimming-, or gliding out of sight 

 more like a shadow or a ghost than a fish. Much 

 more might be said both of his smell and taste : but 

 I shall only tell you, that St. Ambrose, the glorious 

 Bishop of Milan, who lived when the Church kept 

 fasting-days, calls him the Flower-fish, or Flower of 

 Fishes, and that he was so far in love with him, that 

 he would not let him pass without the honour of a 

 long discourse ; but I must ; and pass on to tell 

 vou how to take this daintv fish. 



First, note, that he grows not to the bigness of 

 a Trout ; for the biggest of them do not usually 

 exceed eighteen inches. He lives in such rivers as 

 the Trout does, and is usually taken with the same 

 baits as the Trout is, and after the same manner, 

 for he will bite both at the minnow, or worm, or 

 flv : though he bites not often at the minnow, and 

 is very gamesome at the fly, and much simpler, 

 and therefore bolder than a Trout ; for he will rise 

 twenty times at a fly, if you miss him, and yet rise 



