74 BEST S AK T OF ANGl.l NG. 



at ground, without you use a ground bait, the at* 

 tempt is almost useless ; after great heats, wheu 

 the weather gets cool, you will be sure to hava. 

 good sport. 



The hooks, No. 1 1 or 1 2. 



GOBI US FLUFIAT1LIS, 



The Gudgeon ; is a fish that affords the young 

 angler an amazing deal of diversion ; being one 

 that bites very free, and when struck is never lost, 

 because he is a leather-mouthed fish. They spawn 

 three or four times in the summer, and their feed- 

 ing is like the barbel's, in the streams and ou 

 gravel, slighting all manner of flies Their baits 

 are chiefly avAsp, gent/es, and cud^ but the small 

 red-worm is best. When you angle for them, be 

 provided with a gudgeon-rake, with which rake 

 the ground every ten minutes, which gathers 

 them together. A single-haired line is best, with 

 a quill or cork float, according to the rapidity of 

 the stream ; your hook, No. 8 or Q, and your 

 bait on the ground. You may angle for him 

 with a running line, by hand, without a float. 



The gudgeon is of a small size ; those few, 

 however, that are caught in the Rennet ami Cole, 

 are three times ihe weight of those taken else- 

 where. One w r as once taken near Ux bridge, 

 that weighed ha fa pound. 



The author " On Angling in the Rivtf Tient," 

 gives us a new method of catching them : he 

 iirst desires us, " never to continue in the water 

 long, though he has betn in it jor six hours togc* 

 iher ;" he then observes with his usual circum- 

 spection, " that the best way <f catching them, >s 

 by going into the water, and stunng up (lie sand 

 ana grawl." This surely may be termed gad- 



