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the season, fishes will not bite that day, except in, 

 the evening ; and after they have spawned, very 

 ill, till with grass and weeds they have scoured 

 themselves, and by that means recovered their 

 appetite. 



18th. The best time for the trout to be taken, 

 and other fishes with the ground-line, is morning 

 and evening, in clear weather and water ; but if 

 the day proves cloudy or the water muddy, you 

 may angle all day long. 



19th. The angler may depend on catching store 

 of fishes in a dark, close, gloomy, or lowering 

 day, if the wind be southerly, and when, as the 

 poet observes, 



(t The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, 

 " By such as wander thro' the forest walks, 

 " Beneath th' umbrageous multitude of leaves." 



Having given the reader every necessary in- 

 struction in regard to the breeding and feeding of 

 fishes ; with the best advice concerning his rods, 

 lines, floats, hooks, baits, &c. ; and a set of very 

 choice rules, hints, and cautions, I shall now tell 

 him the best methods of taking the fishes in ge- 

 neral angled for in England and Wales. 



