70 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



leave the flesh, which will be by that time very firm 

 and perfectly clean. Open the belly, take out the 

 inside, aud use anchovy aud butter for sauce. 



Red paste is an excellent bait, coloured with ver- 

 milion or red lead as I have before laid down, but 

 it is best to take with you gentles, white paste, and 

 their other baits, as they are very fond of change, 

 and will refuse one minute what they will take 

 the next. Their hooks No. 11 or 12. 



THE DACE OR DARE. 



This fish, and the roach, are much of the same 

 kind, therefore the directions given for one will 

 serve for the other. They spawn about the mid- 

 dle of March, and will take any fly, especially the 

 Stonecadew-fly, May-fly, the latter end of April 

 and most part of May ; and the ant-fly in 

 June, July, and August. When you angle for 

 the dace with the ant-fly under water, let it be 

 about two hands' bread ih from the ground. They 

 never refuse a fly in a warm day on the top of the 

 water. The best bait for them in the winter, is 

 the earth-bob, it is the spawn of the beetle, and 

 is to be found by following the plough in sandy- 

 ish grounds; put them into a vessel with some 

 of the earth from whence they are taken, and 

 use them all the winter as an excellent bait, as I 

 have before-mentioned in the description of baits. 

 As for your line, &c. the directions given for the 

 roach, will serve in all respects for the dace or 

 dare. 



Dace may be also taken with flesh-flies, upon 

 the surface of the water ; into whose backs, be- 

 tween the wings, you must put your hook, which 

 should be very small : they bite in the morning 



