

CHAPTER V. 



HAUNTS OF FISH, AND TIMES AND SEASONS. 



SECT. I. THE HAUNTS OF FISH. 



To be an experienced or complete angler, at leisure 

 times try all waters where you suppose fish are to be 

 found. 



Angle for perch in gentle streams, of reasonable 

 depth, by a hollow bank. For salmon, in large swift 

 rivers that ebb and flow, and are gravelly and craggy. For 

 trout, in purling brooks, or rivers very swift, strong, or 

 sandy bottomed. For carp and tench, in still waters, 

 muddy ponds, and where weeds and roots of trees are. 

 For eels, in muddy rivers and ponds. For bream, pike, 

 or chub, in sandy or clayey rivers, and brooks, and ponds, 

 wherein bullrushes and flags grow. For roach, dace, 

 barbel, and ruff, in sandy and gravelly deep waters, 



