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AMERICAN FISHES. 



the morning, or late in the evening, is the best time for pursuing your 

 sport." 



The above mode of baiting bottom grounds, and of fishing with the 

 worm, in all its particulars, may be pursued with perfect success in 

 all ponds and slow-running streams, for all the many species of the 

 Carp family, which are, for the most part, the least carnivorous of 

 fishes, and consequently the most difficult to allure, as the Bream, 

 Roach, Dace, Chub, and Shiner, as they are provincially termed, 

 though by no means identical with the European fishes of the same 

 names. The Suckers, Catastomi, a sub-genus of the same family, 

 will hardly take any bait whatsoever. 



While fishing, as above de-scribed, both small river Pearch and Eels 

 of all sizes are likely to be hooked, as the baited bottom-ground allures 

 all those spocies which seek their feed at the bottom to its vicinity 



