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evening till sun-set ; but at tirnes~I have had 

 excellent sport with them the whole day 

 through : you may fish for them from the 

 latter end of May to the end of autumn, but 

 I prefer September before any other month, 

 as by that time they are sure to be met 

 with in deep holes, and the weather is not 

 too cold. In the summer they come to the 

 shallows about sun-set, where they may be 

 taken with a well scoured lob-worm; you 

 have no occasion for a float, but must put 

 a large bullet on the reel-line, made fast 

 about a yard above your hook, that your 

 bait may lie ledger ; you must have a very 

 strong silk-worm gut next your hook, at the 

 bottom of your reel-line ; for the Barbie is 

 so very strong, and will make so many at- 

 tempts to run off, that a winch is as necessary 

 here as for a Trout. 



THE BREAM, 



Is a broad flat fish, with a small head and 

 a sharp snout ; they breed both in rivers and 



