60 BOTTOM OR FLOAT-FISHING. 



counted in a single specimen, weighing half a 

 pound. 



THE POPE OR RUFFE. 



The only other species of the Perch family 

 known to exist in this country is the Pope or Ruffe, 

 a gregarious fish, which though resembling its con- 

 geners in many points of habit and structure, is in 

 an angling point of view altogether inferior. The 

 bait and tackle recommended for Gudgeon-fishing 

 will be found also the most successful in taking 

 Pope ; and indeed it is in Gudgeon-fishing that the 

 Pope is most frequently captured. I have seldom 

 met with specimens exceeding four or five inches 

 in length. 



BARBEL AND BREAM. 

 BARBEL. 



THE Barbel is so named from the barbels or beards 

 with which its nose and upper lip are furnished, in 

 order to assist it in feeling its way about in deep, 

 and consequently more or less dark waters ; and 

 probably also for the purpose of enabling it to 

 detect the nature of the substances with which it 

 comes in contact. Of the species provided with 



