272 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



in the shallows, in the heat of Summer : but in Au- 

 tumn when the weeds begin to grow sour and rot, and 

 the weather colder then, they gather together, and get 

 into the deeper parts of the water, and are to be fished 

 for, there, with your hook always touching the 

 ground, if you fish for him with a float, or with a 

 cork. But many will fish for the Gudgeon by hand, 

 with a running-line upon the ground, without a cork ; 

 as a Trout is fished for; and it is an excellent way, if 

 you have a gentle rod, and as gentle a hand *. 



There is also another fish called a POPE, and by 

 some a RUFFO ; a fish that is not known to be in some 

 rivers : he is much like the Pearch, for his shape, and 

 taken to be better than the Pearcb, but will not grow to 

 be bigger than a Gudgeon. He is an excellent fish, no 

 fish that swims is of a pleasanter taste. And he is, 

 also, excellent to enter a young angler, for he is a 

 greedy biter ; and they will usually lie, abundance of 

 them together, in one reserved place, where the water 

 is deep and runs quietly ; and an easy angler, if he has 

 found where they lie, may catch forty or fifty, or some- 

 times twice so many, at a standing. 



You must fish for him with a small red worm, and 

 if you bait the ground with eartb 3 it is excellent. 



There is also a 



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In fishing for Gudgeons, have a rake ; and, every quarter of an hour, 

 rake the bottom of the river, and the fish will flock thither in shoals. 



