96 TIMES FOR ANGLING. 



good times for carp, barbel, tench, and bream, in 

 the summer time, and in the middle of the day in 

 winter. 



Salmon and pike bite best about the middle of the 

 afternoon, in clear water, and with a gentle wind. 



Perch, roach, dace, and gudgeons will bite all day in 

 cool, cloudy weather. 



Trout bite best in muddy water, in dark, cloudy, 

 windy weather, from seven or eight, till nine or ten, in 

 the morning; and from three till five in the afternoon. 



Let us now just run over the months of the year, and 

 see what may be done in them respectively. 



January. Pike, jack, chub, and roach may be 

 sometimes taken towards the middle of the day, if the 

 water is pretty clear. The deepest and most quiet 

 parts of the stream are where the fish will be found. 



February. If the weather is mild, carp, perch, 

 roach, chub, eels, &c., may sometimes be taken in the 

 scours and shallows, and near the banks, about the 

 middle of the day. 



March. Still keep in the shallows and eddies, near 

 the banks ; but the month is not a favourable one. In 

 some of the western parts of England, good tro,ut may 

 be taken. In the northern rivers, salmon-fishing com- 

 mences, and continues through the summer. Red 

 worms are now a killing bait for carp. 



April. Trout now begin to sport in the shallows ; 

 and jack, pike, carp, perch, roach, dace, chub, tench, 

 barbel, bleak, gudgeons, and minnows will all take a 

 bait. Dace and chub are worth nothing in the 

 interval between this month and the latter end of 

 July. 



