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shaded with trees. For umber, in clayey marshes, or 

 streams running swift. For gudgeons in small sandy, 

 or gravelly rivers. Shad, peel, mullet and flounders, 

 thwait, and scant are found near the sea, or in 

 brackish rivers, having ebb and flow, where the 

 bottom is fine sand or gravelly. Sometimes all kinds of 

 fish are found in diverse waters. 



SECT. II. TIMES AND SEASONS FOR ANGLING. 



IN hot, sunshiny weather, the evening and the morning 

 will be found the only parts of the day during which 

 ground-angling can be pursued with success. If the 

 weather be cloudy, any part of the day will do. 



In winter, choose the middle of the day, and fix 

 upon a spot where you can get the warmth of the sun, if 

 it appear. 



When angling after a shower, get the wind to your 

 back, coming from south to west, and have the sun on 

 your face. 



It will be a waste of time to angle when the earth is 

 hot and dry, or hasty showers much disturb the waters, 

 or the east or north winds blow strong and cold. 



The best times to angle are when the weather is 

 calm and clear, or cool and cloudy, and the wind is 

 gently blowing. When a brief shower has a little clouded 

 the water, is a good time to angle at the bottom of a 

 stream, especially with a red worm bait. 



There are parts of the day at which different fish 

 bite best. 



From sun-rise till eight or nine o'clock in the 

 morning, and from four in the afternoon till dark, are 



