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anglers, and watching my large float j but the few bitefr 

 I obtained in that way, added to the instructions of a near 

 relation, who is very expert in every branch of angling, 

 made me try the dead-baits ; wherewith I have since 

 killed abundance of immensely fine fishes I 

 The young angler, when intent on catching jacks, 

 must not overlook those little pools and ditches which 

 sometimes appear to aftbrd little shelter > for in such he 

 will often meet with fishes that will make his rod groan,, 

 and put his tackle to the proof. 



At the time I am writing this, a ditch is in my view, 

 no where six. feet broad, nor three feet deep, where I 

 see jacks of six or seven pounds weight laying in num- 

 bers 5. but though there is not, I am confident, a single 

 fish of any other kind in. that water, yet I never have 

 teen able to induce oneja-clt to bite.. 



The ditch in question,, communicates with a very small 

 river f at least it is so called, though the spring which 

 feeds it is barely sufficient to. turn a small mill, and its 

 bed. is scarcely any where larger than the ditch, in ques- 

 tion. It is remarkable, that when the jack* enter the 

 river from the ditch, they take- the bait freely. 

 i With regard to taking jacks with the fly,. I am not 

 able to say any tiling from my awn experience ; but I see 

 no reason, why they should not rise to one of a very large 

 size, made of gaudy materials, so as to entice. 



I am rather cf opinion with an author who- writes con- 

 fidently on this subject, and who, indeed, asserts that 

 he has taken-jads with a fly (or more properly speaking 

 a bird), made somewhat resembling, and a$ large as a 

 wren ; though far more shewy. 



I have frequently seen a jack rise at a swallow, a&it 



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