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game-keepers, and others, to retain the fishes within a 

 certain part of the waters, and thus to prevent their emi- 

 grating. 



Ground-laits should be chiefly vised some hours. pre- 

 vious to the intended time of angling j generally, they 

 should be thrown in the evening before j but if the wa- 

 ters do not abound with fish, it may be necessary to keep 

 the favourite spots baited for many days previous to 

 throwing a line. By such means, the deeps and holes 

 wherein the ground-bait is cast will be the general resort 

 of every kind of fishes, and of the larger ones especially ; 

 they rarely failing to dart towards those parts where they 

 observe the smaller ones collected. 



If there should be jacks in the water, you may rest 

 assured of their presence at, or near, the baited spots, 

 when you perceive that no fishes approach your bait. For 

 the accumulation of the smaller, or more familiar fishes, 

 especially at stated times, or frequently, never fails to be 

 noticed by these bold depredators, which watch their op- 

 portunity, and cither overtly, or from behind some 

 weedy, or sheltered spot, attack those which come to 

 partake of the ground-bait. 



When this happens, you cannot do better than troll for 

 the jacks, which rarely miss your bait : in the course of 

 a few hours the smaller fish will resort, as before, to the 

 spot, and afford excellent amusement. 



But occasionally, large perch, trouts, or even eels, 

 will be found to cause the same shyness : however, as 

 these will all take the worm, the angler need neither 

 grieve at the circumstance, nor change his mode of pro- 

 cedure. 



I think that large eels cause more terror .among small 



fry, 



