64 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



you will find perhaps thirty or forty of them 

 basking themselves on the surface of the water; 

 then take your rod, which must be very strong 

 and long, your line the same, but about a yard 

 in length : and bait the hook with a grasshopper : 

 you must shelter yourself behind some bush or 

 stump of a tree, so as not to be seen ; for the 

 chub is very timorous, and the least shadow will 

 make him sink to the bottom, though he will 

 soon rise again. Having therefore fixed your 

 eye upon the largest and best, drop your bait 

 with great caution before him, and he will in- 

 stantly take it, and be held fast; for he is a lea- 

 ther-mouthed fish, and seldom breaks hold if 

 played properly. 



N, B. In dibbing, where you cannot get a 

 grasshopper, any^/fo/, beetle, or moth, will equally 

 answer the purpose. 



When you are roving for perch with a minnow 

 you will often take large chub. 



The fearful chevin loves the shaded stream , 

 Sharp rills delight the trout, and pools the bream 

 In deeps, the speckled samlet loves to rove, 

 And marly swifts, allure the barbel drove; 

 Unwary roach, the sandy bottom choose, 

 And carp the weeds, and eels the muddy ooze. 



MOSES BROWNE 



BARBUS, 



The Barlel ; so called on account of the barb,, 

 or beard, that is under his nose or chops, is a lea- 

 ther-mouthed fish 5 and though he seldom breaks 

 his hold when hooked, yet if he proves a large 

 one, he often breaks both rod and line. The 

 jnale is esteemed much better than the female* 



