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an excellent fish to initiate a young angler in 

 Jtyifattit'-g, by his whipping for them in a hot 

 summer's evening, with a small artificial black 

 gnat. Your tackle must be fine and neatly 

 Jbrrned. He is a capital bait for the pike. 



Hook, JSo. 13. 



The bleak seldom exceeds five or six inches frt 

 length ; artificial pearls are made with the scale* 

 i)f this fibb, and of the dace. They are beaten 

 into a fine powder, then diluted with water, and 

 introduced into a thin glass bubble, which i 

 afterwards filled with wax. The French were 

 the inventors of this art. Dr. Lister says, that 

 when he was at Paris, a certain artist used in 

 one winter, thirty hampers full of fish in this 

 manufacture. 



SEU PHOXIXUS 



The Miw now or Pink ; though one of thd 

 smallest fishes, is as excellent a fish to eat as any 

 of the most famed. They are generally found in 

 March and April, and remain nil the cold wea- 

 ther compels them to retire to their winter-quar- 

 ters. He is of a greenish, or wavy sky colour, his 

 telly very white, his back blackish; and is a most 

 excellent bait for any of the fish of prey : namely, 

 the pike, trout, perch, 8cc. His baits are small 

 red-twins, zca>p*j cad*, &c. If you can catch 

 enough of th( : m, they will make an excellent tan- 

 sey, their heads and tails being cut off; and fried 

 in eggs, with a sauce made of butter, sugar, and 

 verjuice; The smallest of hooks. The minnow 

 is a most killing bait for the large trout, perch, 

 and chub* 



