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anglers, and watching my large float j but the few bites 

 I obtained in that way, added to the instructions of a near 

 relation, who is very expert in every branch of angling, 

 made me try the dead-baits -, wherewith I have since 

 killed abundance of immensely fine fishes ! 



The young angler, when intent on catching jacks, 

 must not overlook those little pools and ditches which 

 sometimes appear to afford little shelter ; for in such he 

 will often meet with fishes that will make his rod groan A 

 and put his tackle to the proof. 



At the time I am writing this, a ditch is in my vie\v, 

 no where six feet broad, nor three feet deep, where I 

 see jacks of six or seven pounds weight laying in num- 

 bers i but though there is not, 1 am confident, a single 

 fish of any other kind in that water, yet I never have 

 been able to induce one jack tcx bite. 



The ditch in question, communicates with a very small 

 river, at least it is so called, though the spring which 

 feeds it is barely sufficient to turn a small mill,, and its 

 bed is scarcely any where larger than the ditch in ques- 

 tion. It Is remarkable, that when the jacks enter the 

 river from the ditch, they take the bait freely. 



With regard to taking jacks with the /fy, I am not 

 able to say any tiling from my own experience -, but I see 

 no reason why they should not rise to one of a very large 

 size, made of gaudy materials, so as to eutice. 



I am rather of opinion with an author who writes con- 

 fidently on this subject, and who, indeed, asserts that 

 he has taken jacks with a fly (or more properly speaking 

 a bird), made somewhat resembling, and as large as a 

 wren ; though far more shewy. 



1 have frequently seen a jack rise at a swallow, as k 



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