PIKE, PERCH, BREAM, AND ROACH 143 



of the lands above them, often in very fair 

 quantities, and three parts of them are sure 

 to be the large worms called lobs. 



As a live bait for perch, under the present 

 order of things, the minnow takes first place. 

 If I were to have my choice, and I knew that 

 large fish were in the swim, and that the bait- 

 kettle had some stone loaches in it, I should 

 pick out the largest of these for my lure. You 

 can at times see in clear water how fish feed, 

 and what they are just then feeding on. As 

 perch are bold fish, and as a rule bold biters, 

 this has not been difficult for me to do. With 

 his green back, barred, zebra-like, with thick 

 lines of black, his yellow-tinted side and white 

 belly, the whole effect touched up, so to speak, 

 by some of his crimson and vermillion-tinted 

 fins, the perch is indeed a beauty. 



"He that hath a bream in his pond is able to 

 bid his friend welcome," said Izaak Walton. 



Bream and roach are great favourites with a 

 certain class of anglers ; in fact, a Norfolk bream 

 fisher and a River Sea roacher have been as 

 much written and talked about as any class of 

 the angling community. 



For years the Broads have been famous for 

 their bream ; but there is not the least necessity 



