the spring, and fall ; and sometimes in the winter, when 

 the weather has been mild for some time, and there falls 

 a little sleety rain. 



These fishes are partial to soft water, such as flows 

 over chalk, marl, or deep, slimy mud ; but not to clay 

 soils j nor are they found much where the bed of the 

 stream is coarse or pebbly ; on fine sand, where soft 

 weeds float, they are soiaaetimes to be seen in numbers ; 

 especially in the spring, when they are about to cast, 

 or have spawned. If you use a float, let it be very small 

 and put only as much shot as will make it stand. 



The rudd will sometimes rise with great avidity at a 

 neat, brown fly - } or at a r ed- spinner ; but they are ex- 

 tremely cunning, and are more easily taken by means of 

 a natural fly j especially the grey stone-fly, and the 

 yellow cow-dung fly ; both of which they seem to be par- 

 tial to. 



When you angle for this fish, keep well out of sight ; 

 for it in general, swims near the surface 5 and from its 

 haunt among the weeds, looks around very sharply; 

 scudding away at the least appearance of danger. 



You may occasionally use other baits ; such as gentles, 

 laked wasps, and the salmon's roe -, but, in my opinion, 

 the worm and high coloured cadlate are by far the best. 



I believe the rudd is never found in ponds, or any 

 water that has not some current. I recollect conversing 

 with a brother angler, whom I met by chance some 

 years ago at IFhnsford j when, on my mentioning the 

 rudd, and inquiring whether there were any in the river 

 Nen, which passes through that town, he said that one 

 had been caught full of roe, and was conveyed into a pond 

 on a gentleman's estate ; where however it did not live, 

 M 2 but 



