72 BEST'S ART oa? ANGLING. 



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the depth of two feet, or not exceeding three, 

 your sport may be better ; bait your hook with 

 three large gentles, use a cork-float, be very at- 

 tentive, and strike at the very first bite : if there 

 are any large dace in the mill-pool, they will re- 

 sort to die eddy between the two streams. 



N. B. Whenever you fish for roach or dace, at 

 ground, without you use a ground-bait, the at- 

 tempt is almost "useless ; but after great heats, 

 when th weather gets cool, you will be sure to 

 have good sport. The hooks, JNo. 11 or 12. 



THE GUDGEON. 



The gudgeon is a fish that affords the young 

 angler an amazing deal of diversion ; being one 

 that bites very free, and when struck is never lost, 

 because he is a leather-mouthed fish. They spawn 

 three or four times in the summer, and their feed- 

 ing is like the barbel's, in the streams and on gra- 

 vel, slighting all manner of flies. Their baits are 

 chiefly wasps, gentles, and cads, but the small red 

 worm is best. When you angle for them, be pro- 

 vided with a gudgeon -rake, with which rake the 

 ground every ten minutes, which gathers them to- 

 gether. A single-haired line is best, with a quill, 

 or cork-float; according to the rapidity of the 

 stream ; your hook No. 8 or 9, and your bait on 

 the ground. You may angle for him with a run- 

 ning line by hand without a float. 



The author" On Angling in the River Trent" 



fives us a new method of catching them : he first 

 csires us " never to continue in the water long, 

 though he has been in it for six hours together ;" 

 he then observes, with his usual circumspection, 

 "that the best icay of catching them, is by going 



