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CHAP. XIX. 



FLOUNDER AND SMELT. 



THE Flounder is only found in rivers where 

 the tide flows : they are generally considered 

 a very sweet fish, light and easy of digestion. 

 In the creeks from Blackwall to Bromley, 

 Stratford, and West-Ham, they are taken ei- 

 ther with dead lines or floated, in the same 

 manner as Eels ; in fact, when you angle for 

 Eels in this part, you angle for Flounders, as 

 they will both take the same baits at the same 

 season, and it frequently happens that you take 

 both Flounders and Eels promiscuously. See 

 fishing for Eels with a floated line. 



SMELTS 



are well known as most delicious fish : they 

 are caught by angling, in the following man- 



