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wear list slippers or goloshes in their punts, 

 as no sound is more apt to scare away 

 bream than the noise of boots on the floor 

 of a boat or punt. Ordinary float-tackle, 

 such as is used for roach-fishing, will be found 

 equally serviceable for ordinary-sized bream ; 

 big bream are more usually taken on the 

 " leger." It is well also for a bream-angler 

 to arm himself with a stout apron and cloth, 

 for bream are covered, much like the tench, 

 with a thick slime, which would otherwise 

 ruin the angler's clothes irretrievably. The 

 necessity of a new suit of clothes for each 

 day's bream-fishing would be apt to warp the 

 enthusiasm of the most ardent fisher of carp- 

 bream. 



