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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



This fish, that carries a natural balsam in him to 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 

 therefore proceed to give you some few, and but a few directions 

 how to catch this Tench, 



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of which I have given 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. 



all of them but the tench." The tench is singularly tenacious of life, and 

 Daniel gives an account of one found in draining a foul pond, shut up in a 

 hole, the shape of which he had in consequence assumed ; his length, 

 thirty-three inches ; his circumference almost to the tail twenty-seven 

 inches ; his color vermilion ; and his weight eleven pounds, nine ounces 

 and a quarter — more than twice the ordinary weight. He was afterwards 

 put into a pond where he throve very well. Though Walton praises his 

 flavor, it is not generally esteemed, nor can it well be, from his foul haunts. 

 The Germans call him, in derision, The Shoemaker. He is not known 

 among us. — Am. Ed. 



