CHAP. XV.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. Ipl 



together, and get into the deeper parts of the water ; and are to 

 be fished for there, with your hook always touching the ground, 

 if you fish for him with a float, or with a cork. But many will 

 fish for the Gudgeon by hand, with a running-line upon the 

 ground, without a cork, as a Trout is fished for, and it is ao 

 excellent way, if you have a gentle rod and as gentle a hand. 



There is also another fish called a POPE, and by some a 

 RUFFE ; a fish that is not known to be in some rivers : he is 



much like the Pearch for his shape, and taken to be better 

 than the Pearch, but will not grow to be bigger than a Gud- 

 geon : he is an excellent fish, no fish that swims is of a pleas- 

 anter taste, and he is also excellent to enter a young Angler, 

 for he is a greedy biter, and they will usually lie, abundance of 

 them together, in one reserved place, where the water is deep, 

 and runs quietly ; and an easy Angler, if he has found where 

 they lie, may catch forty or fifty, or sometimes twice so many, 

 at a standing. 



You must fish for him with a small red worm, and if you 

 bait the ground with earth, it is excellent. 



There is also a Bleak, or Fresh-water Sprat, a fish that is 

 ever in motion, and therefore called by some the River-Swal- 

 low ; for just as you shall observe the Swallow to be, most 

 evenings in summer, ever in motion, making short and quick 

 turns when he flies to catch flies in the an, by which he lives, 

 so does the Bleak at the top of the water. Ausonius would 



