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in summer I have taken twelve dozen at a 

 time with the artificial ant-fly; there can be no 

 better sport than whipping for Bleak off a high 

 bank in swift water on a summer's evening. 

 I would recommend for this purpose, to tie 

 two small black wings on a very little hook, 

 and instead of a body to the fly, supply it 

 with a gentle or two : this is by far the best 

 method that can be used. 



Having now given an account of such fish 

 as will promiscuously take the fly and ground- 

 bait ; I shall, in the next place, proceed with 

 those that are in general only to be taken by 

 the latter means, and which are equally the 

 inhabitants of rivers, lakes, and fish-ponds; 

 beginning, as the first for dignity and sport, 

 with the Pike ? on whom I shall bestow a 

 long chapter. 



