THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



cure both himself and others, loves yet to feed in 

 very foul water and amongst weeds. And yet I 

 am sure he eats pleasantly, and doubtless you will 

 think so too, if you taste him. And I shall there- 

 fore proceed to give you some few, and but a few, 

 directions how to catch this tench, of which I have 

 given you these observations. 



He will bite at a paste made of brown bread 

 and honey, or at a marsh-worm or a lob-worm ; 

 he inclines very much to any paste with which tar 

 is mixed, and he will bite also at a smaller worm 

 with his head nipped off, and a cod-worm put on 

 the hook before that worm ; and I doubt not but 

 that he will also in the three hot months, for in 

 the nine colder he stirs not much, bite at a flag- 

 worm or at a green gentle, but can positively say 

 no more of the tench, he being a fish that I have 

 not often angled for, but I wish my honest scholar 

 may, and be ever fortunate when he fishes. 



