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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



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when the weeds begin to grow sour or rot, and the 

 weather colder, then they gather together, and get in- 

 to the deeper parts of the water ; and are to be fished 

 for there, witli your hook always touching the ground, 

 if you fish for him with a float, or with a cork. But 

 many will fish for the Gudgeon by hand, with a run- 

 ning-line upon the ground, without a cork, as a Trout 

 is fished for, and it is an excellent way, if you 

 have a gentle rod and as gentle a hand. 



There is also another fish called a Pope, and by 

 some a Ruffe; a fish that is not known to be in some 



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rivers : he is much like the Pearch for his shape, and 

 taken to be better than the Pearch, but will not grow 

 to be bigger than a Gudgeon : he is an excellent fish, 

 no fish that swims is of a pleasanter taste, and he is 

 also excellent to enter a young Angler, for he is a 

 greedy biter, and they will usually liej abundance of 

 them together, in one reserved place, where the 

 water is deep, and runs quietly ; and an easy Angler, 

 if he has found where they lie, may catch forty or 

 fifty, or sometimes twice so many, at a standing. 



