50 ANGLING IMPROVED. 



CHAP. IX. 



THE BEST TIMES AND SEASONS TO ANGLE. 



WE now come to the affirmative part, which is the best 

 season to angle, that as before, we discovered when it 

 would be lost labour to seek recreation ; so now you may 

 learn to improve opportunity, when it offers itself to 

 best advantage. 



1. Calm, clear, or which is better, cool cloudy 

 weather in Summer, the wind blowing gently, so as you 

 may guide your tools with ease; in the hottest months, 

 the cooler the better. 



2. When the floods have carried away all the filth 

 that the rain had washed from the higher grounds into 

 the river, and that the river keeps his usual bounds, and 

 appears of a whey colour. 



3. When a sudden violent shower hath a little 

 mudded and raised the river, then if you go forth in, or 

 immediately after such a shower, and angle in the 

 stream at the ground, with a red worm chiefly ; if there 

 be store of fish in the river, you will have sport to your 

 own desire. 



4. A little before any fish spawn, your own ob- 

 servation will inform you of the time, by the fulness of 

 their bellies, they come into the gravely, sandy fords, to 

 rub and loosen their bellies, and then they bite very 

 freely. 



