18 THE JOLLY ANGLER. 



THE EAST INDIA*, WEST INDIA, COMMER- 

 CIAL, AND SURREY CANAL DOCKS. 



In all these places you may catch Perch, Roach, Eels, 

 Bream, sometimes Carp and Tench, with now and then a 

 Jack. I never fished for Smelts, though there used to be 

 some in these Docks, the three first of which are pri- 

 vate ; the Surrey Canal Dock is open to Subscribers ; in 

 the East India Dock, I have taken two or three large 

 Perch. A youth by the side of me took two one morning 

 that weighed six pounds, but the angling here is unplea- 

 sant, the water being 25 feet deep at the edge. See 

 " Dock Fishing." 



Surrey Canal; Grand Junction Canal: Regent's 

 Canal; Bunker's Hill Pond, in the Hackney 

 Road; Hampstead Ponds ; Clapham Common 

 Ponds, with a few others^. 



These places I shall recommend to such anglers as 

 wish to have their patience proved, not that I admit this 

 to be a necessary qualification for an angler, though the 

 bystander generally lets you know by his remarks on 

 your patience, that his owrn ig most wofully exhausted ; 

 like every other amusement it wants a taste for the sport 

 to render it agreeable. 



I now proceed to give a description of the Fish treated 

 of in this Work, as well as a slight account of their 

 haunts, food, breeding time, &c. 



* You must get permission of the Dock Masters, or one of the 

 Directors of the East India Dock Company, to angle here, when you 

 will receive a ticket for the season or day, but it will note only per- 

 mit you to fish in the Outward-bound Dock; here there are plenty 

 of fish, and they bite freely, but the largest Perch are in the Home- 

 ward-bound Dock, where they lately have (from what cause I dop't 

 know) refused the liberty of angling. 



+ There is a place at Shepherd's Bush called Porto Bello, where 

 I believe you may catch Tench, Carp, &c.; but I have never 

 tried it. 



