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with more force than the smaller sorts before recom* 

 mended. 



If the dace do not rise readily at the bare fly, use such 

 as have only wings - t the shanks of the hooks being left 

 naked for the reception of & gentle, &c. which ought to be 

 slipt up until it lays close to the wings, and appears 

 like the body of a fly : such a device is peculiarly 

 killing. 



When dace all on a sudden run into the shallowest 

 water, betraying fear and uneasiness, you may suspect 

 that some predatory fish has appeared, and should be 

 prepared for an attack. I have had small dace and bleaks 

 taken off my hook by jacks and trwts several times. 



Of the Ri(jf, or Pope. 



This is a diminutive species of the perch ; its form 

 being similar 5 its scales possessing the same rough- 

 ness and appearance ; and its haunts the same. They 

 are, if any thing, more thick in proportion, and their 

 flesh is, at least, equal to that of a perch. They rarely 

 weigh more than four or five ounces., but when in 

 the humour, bite so very freely, that the angler may 

 speedily procure an ample dish of diem. They spawn 

 twice, viz. in the spring, and about Michaelmas. 



They do not touch small fry, but take fine, well 

 cleansed worms, particularly such as have been kept in 

 moss, well moistened with sour cream 3 whence, they 

 probably derive a flavour which renders them peculiarly 

 acceptable to the ritjj'. 



Some angle with three, or even four rods j but I 

 think, two are a much as can be well managed -, indeed, 



I have 



