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float down suddenly, therefore you should strike the 

 instant you perceive it ; when you have hooked one, 

 permit it to run out with the line to some distance 

 before you make any attempt to check or turn it, 

 then use every endeavour to prevent it getting 

 among weeds or stones, or under the sbelvings of the 

 bank, all which it will try to effect, and should it 

 succeed you will have very little chance of killing it ; 

 if you hook one in a current, the best way you can 

 manage it is to draw it as quickly as possible into 

 still water, and tire it well before you attempt to 

 land it, which, if a heavy fish, will sometimes occupy 

 nearly half an hour ; but be not afraid, for when the 

 hook, although small, is fairly fixed in its fleshy lips, 

 it will seldom draw. The Barbel is chiefly prized by 

 anglers on account of its being a very game fish, it 

 affords them excellent sport, mixed with some labour 

 and much anxiety. 



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THE E/ud partakes very much of the nature both 

 of Bream and Roach, indeed it is called by many a 

 bastard Bream ; some say it is produced by the one 

 shedding its milt over the spawn of the other. It is 

 frequently caught in the Thames when angling for 

 Roach or Dace ; it is also abundant in the river 

 Cherwell, near Oxford, and in the Witham, in 



