78 BKVF'S ART OF ANGUNG. 



JPISCIS ACULEATUS rULGARTS, SEU PUNGIT1VS 

 ALBERTI, 



The Stickleback, Sharpling, or BansticKfc; this- 

 fish, with three names, as he is called by in diffe- 

 rent counties, is a small prickly fish, and not 

 worth the angler's notice, in regard to himself, 

 but that he is an excellent bait for the trout, who* 

 "will take it sooner than the minnow. His-prickles> 

 must be broke off, and baited according to the 

 directions given for baiting the minnow, under 

 the description of the trout. 



In the fens of Lincolnshire, they are found in 

 such numbers, that they are used to manure the 

 land. There are three species of them, the 

 common, or three spined, the ten spined, and the 

 Jifteen spined. The two first seldom reach the- 

 length of two inches, the latter sometimes grows, 

 to that of six, and is found in the sea only. 



N. B. The tackle, baits, &c. for^ this fish, and; 

 the foregoing ones, must be the saine,. and very 

 fine. 



There are three fishes which I omitted in the 

 first edition, and what anglei> in gen era! seldom, 

 meet with, because they are local, and peculiar* 

 to certain waters ;. but as they are held in high 

 estimation where they are taken, I shall de- 

 scribe them as well as I can for the reader's in- 

 formation. 



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*ALBULA SALMON I SIMILIS, 



The Guinniad; according toCamden and others,. 

 is peculiar to Pemble-Mem in. Cheshire. " The 



*' Huhe-water fishermen, m 1775, took near eight thousand 

 at one draught* It is about lc yen inches long, 



