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few weeks return to their usual haunts. Omitting 

 June, when the fish should be left to recover health 

 and strength, the three or four months following 

 the spawning season usually afford the best Bream 



fishing. 



ROACH AND RUDD. 



WHERE Rudd are found it is almost invariably 

 in waters which are also inhabited by Roach 

 (although the converse of the proposition by no 

 means holds good), and as the two species closely 

 resemble each other both in habits and in the 

 method of fishing for them, baits, &c., I have 

 bracketed them together. 



Roach and Rudd, indeed, have so many striking 

 points of resemblance that the latter were formerly 

 considered by writers on ichthyology to be a 

 "bastard Roach," bred betwixt the true Roach 

 and the Bream an opinion held by, if not 

 originating with, Izaac Walton, who also con- 

 sidered the White Bream or Bream-flat, a cross 

 between the same species. Modern science has, 

 however, exposed the fallacy of this notion, and 

 the three fish are now always recognised as dis- 

 tinct species. Indeed, recent ichthyological re- 



