268 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



amongst weeds. And yet I am sure he eats pleasantly, and 

 doubtless you will think so too, if you taste him. And I 

 shall therefore proceed to give you some few, and but a few, 

 directions how to catch this tench, of which I have given you 

 these observations. 



He will bite a paste made of brown bread and honey, or 

 at a marsh worm, or a lob-worm ; he inclines very much to 

 any paste with which tar is mixed ; and he will bite also at 

 a smaller worm, with his head nipped off, and a cod-worm 

 put on the hook before that worm ; and I doubt not but 

 that he will also in the three hot months, for in the nine 

 colder he stirs not much, bite at a flag-worm, or at a green 

 gentle ; but I can positively say no more of the tench, he 

 being a fish I have not often angled for; but I wish my 

 honest scholar may, and be ever fortunate when he fishes. 



