DELICATE ANGLING WITH A FLOAT. 



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nectidce, it is remarkably prolific ; and as it is really a game 

 fish which affords excellent sport with very delicate tackle, 

 it would be well to stock the lakes in the Middle States with 

 it, where it is much less numerous than in Southern waters. 



For baits, it will take gentles, angle-worms well bleached 

 in moss and fennel is said to be good to mix with moss ; 

 grasshoppers with the legs taken off; a paste made of brown 

 bread and honey. 



Use fine horse-hair and silk lines with quill-float, and fish 

 near the bottom. There is a pond near the junction of the 

 railroads from Augusta and Columbia toward Charleston, 

 which has become celebrated for bream of best quality, and 

 it used to be a great resort. 



SECTION THIRD. 



THE CHANNEL CATFISH. 



protectionists, the strong- 

 est and most unselfish mem- 

 ber of the amphibia is the 

 bull-frog. Thus far his pro- 

 tection has not been proven 

 to extend to other inhab- 

 itants of the waters than 

 the bullhead, and of course 

 ,/ its congener, the catfish; and 

 the bullhead may perhaps 

 be by some inscrutable 

 distribution of nature a 

 congener of both ; for he 

 is generally found in the 

 same fishing - holes. Vide 

 Dr. White's opinion, as given on page 434. 



