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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 an 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 perch for his shape, and taken to be better 

 than the perch, but will not grow to be bigger than a 

 gudgeon. He is an excellent fish, no fish that swims is of 

 a pleasanter 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 as 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 rivet 

 swallow ; for just as you shall observe the swallow to 

 most evenings in summer ever in motion, making short an< 



