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small for him. This fish abounds in our north- 

 ern rivers, especially the Humber ; and the Se- 

 vern and Wye contain many fine ones. Many 

 trouts are taken in hot weather by tickling them 

 as they lie under the hollow banks of small 

 streams ; and pikes as they bask at the surface 

 in the sunshine are caught by a noose of fine 

 wire, or horse-hair, at the end of a rod ; prac- 

 tices which, although not reckoned very sports- 

 manlike, have perhaps quite as much sport in 

 them as if they were. The chub now will take 

 any fly, or cherries, or beetles with the legs and 

 wings cut off; but above all, a grasshopper on 

 the surface, or at the bottom a young humble- 

 bee, such as is found in the mowing grass; but 

 he is a fearful fish, and requires stillness and 

 secrecy in the angler. The carp is found in the 

 deepest holes of ponds or rivers, beneath banks, 

 roots of trees, etc., and is taken early or late in 

 the day with worm, paste, grub, green peas, 

 cherries, or a grasshopper at the bottom. The 

 salmon now makes glorious fishing with the fly 

 in our northern streams. This noble fish is taken 

 in a multitude of ways, and is a source of great 

 profit to the possessors of the streams which it 

 ascends. It is taken in nets, in traps at the 

 weirs, by the line, and the spear. In some parts 

 of Scotland they pursue and spear it by torch- 

 light. In Solway Frith it is speared in the pools 



