36 THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 



Angling for Roach in the Thames is gene- 

 rally practised in boats, with fine gut line, and 

 No. 10 hook ; but I have killed many heavy 

 Roach from its banks with a cane rod ? quill 

 float, single hair line, and No. 12 hook, in the 

 holes and eddies between Chertsey -bridge and 

 Shepperton, and from thence, by Haliford, 

 Walton, and Sunbury, to Hampton, in the 

 course of which rout the angler will find many 

 good holes and swims : also in the meadows 

 at Teddington, and on the opposite side from 

 Kingston to Richmond. To take Roach like 

 an artist, you must use a light cane rod, near 

 twenty feet long, with a fine light stiff top, 

 a single hair line, a tip-cap'd float, and No. 

 12 hook: observe when fishing, your line 

 above the float must not be more than twelve 

 or fourteen inches long, or you will not hit a 

 .fine bite ; the float should be so shotted that 

 not much more than an eighth of an inch 

 .appear above the water, for Roach (and very 

 often the heaviest) bite so fine or gently, that 

 without attending to the above nicety in ad- 



