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to move much during the winter ; but in the spring, to 

 soon as they feel the genial warmth of the sun, may t>e 

 seen basking either on, or near the surface. Jacks in 

 particular, appear so completely entranced by the sun's 

 rays, that in April and May they are very often snared, 

 as will be shewn while treating of that fish. Eels are 

 sometimes taken in the same way, and trouts at that 

 season, indeed often during the whole of the summer, if 

 the water be not very warm, will approach any heated 

 substance whose influence reaches them. 



Thus many put their hands under water, near the 

 vStumps of trees, &c. where trouts frequent, and often 

 both feel and see them come to warm themselves ; in tin's 

 way a very slight motion of the fingers seems to give them 

 peculiar pleasure, so that they gradually fall asleep, when, 

 by a little dexterity, they may be grasped just behind their 

 gills, and thus be caught. 



Perch get into very deep holes, among weeds that have 

 been flattened down by decay, or by strong winds ; re- 

 maining in such shelters during the cold weather, and 

 cnly coming out when there are few clouds, with a tem- 

 perate warm breeze. They do not frequent scours, or 

 appear so much at the surface, as most other fishes of 

 prey, except when after minnows, &c. 



It may generally be considered as a Rile, that such 

 fishes as remain chiefly at the bottom during the summer, 

 are more alert, and take the baits during the winter 

 better than hashers, or such as in the spring lay in a 

 semi-torpid state on the surface. 



The fact is, that such fishes as expose themselves least 

 to the sun, are (lie least sensible of its absence. 1 have 

 before specified, that all fishes while in spawn, and at 



the 



