40 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



a few times over the flame of a candle, and it 

 will separate. 



15. The best times for angling are from April 

 till October, and the best time of the day from 

 three tili nine in the morning, and three in the 

 evening till sun-set. The south wind is the best 

 to angle in ; the next best point to that is the 

 west ; the cooler these blow in the hottest 

 months, is the best time to fish. 



16th. Never angle in an easterly wind, for 

 your labour will be in vain ; but you may if the 

 wind blows from any other point, provided not 

 too sharply. Fishes will never bite before a 

 shower of rain ; this hint may save you many a 

 wet skin.* 



17th. In the morning, if there happens to be 

 a hoar frost, either in the spring or advancing of 

 the season, fishes will not bite that day, except 

 in the evening : and after they have spawned, 

 very ill, till with grass and weeds they have 

 scoured themselves, and by that means recover- 

 ed their appetite. 



18th. The best time for the trout to be taken, 

 and other fishes with the ground-line, is morning 

 and evening, in clear weather and water ; but 

 if the day proves cloudy, or the water muddy, 

 you may angle all day long. 



19th. The angler may depend on. catching 

 store of fishes, in a dark, close, gloomy, or low- 

 ering day, if the wind be southerly, and when, 

 as the poet observes. 



* The stealing show'r is scarce to patter heard 

 " By such as wander thro* the forest walks, 

 *' Beneath th 1 umbrageous multitude of leaves*" 



* Vide the Prognostics. 



