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tions given for one will serve for the other. They 

 spawn about the middle of March, and will take 

 any fly, especially the stonecadew-jly, May-fly, 

 the latter end of April and most part of May ; 

 and the ant-fly, in June, July, and August. 

 When you angle for the Dace with the ant-fly 

 under water, let it be about two hands breadth 

 from the ground. They never refuse a fly in a 

 warm day on the top of the water. The best bait 

 for them in the winter, is the earth bob y it is the 

 spawn of the beetle, and is to be found by fol- 

 lowing the plough in sanclyish grounds ; put them 

 into a vessel with some of the earth from whence 

 they are taken, and use them all the winter as an 

 excellent bait, as I have before mentioned in the 

 description of baits. As for your line, &c., the 

 directions given for the roach, will serve in all 

 respects for the dace or dare. 



Dace may be also taken with flesh-flies, upon 

 the surface of the water ; into whose backs, be- 

 tween the wings, you must put your hook, which 

 should be very small : they bite in the morning 

 and evening 5 you must then provide a cane-rod, 

 which is the lightest of any, and let it be seven- 

 teen feet, at least, in length, and your line, which 

 should, from the middle downwards, consist of 

 single-hairs, be a little longer than your rod ; 

 then provide a sufficient quantity of house-Vies , 

 which keep in a phial, stopped with a cork. With 

 these repair, especially about? seven or eight 

 o'clock in a summer's evening, to a mill-stream, 

 and having fixed three or four hooks, with single 

 hair-links, not above four inches long, to your 

 line, bait them with the flies, and angle up the 

 surface of the water on the smoothest part, at 

 the end of \hs stream \ the dace will rise freely, 



