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with wheat-bran. They are good bait for tench, 

 bream, barbel, dace, gudgeon, chub, bleak, and 

 carp. 



Co w-d ung-bob is found under cow-dung, and 

 somewhat resembles a gentle. It is best kept in 

 earth; and is a good bait for trout, chub, carp, 

 tench, bream, dace, and roach. 



The white-grub, or white-bait, is much larger 

 than a maggot; it is found in sandy and mellow 

 ground, and is an excellent bait, from the middle 

 of April to November, for tench, roach, bream, 

 trout, chub, dace, and carp. These baits should 

 be kept in an earthen vessel, with the earth about 

 them, and covered very close. 



Flag or dock worms are found among the small 

 fibres of flag roots, and in old pits or ponds. They 

 may be kept in bran ; and are good bait for bream, 

 tench, roach, carp, bleak, dace, and perch. 



Boiled salmon-spawn is a very good bait for 

 chub, and in some rivers for trout. 



Dace, minnows, roach, smelt, gudgeon, bleak, 

 and miller's-thumb, are proper bait for pike. 



Grasshoppers, in June, July, and August, their 

 legs and wings taken off, are good for roach, chub, 

 trout, and grayling. 



Cheese, or oat-cake, is reckoned killing for chub, 

 barbel, roach, and dace ; the cheese you may moisten 

 with honey and water. 



The water-cricket, water-louse or creeper, which 

 is found in stony rivers, will often take trout, in 

 March, April, and May. 



White snails are good bait for chub early in the 

 morning, and for trout and eels on night hooks. 



House-crickets are also good, to dib with, for 

 chub. 



