THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 89 



THE GUDGEON, 



Is generally five or six inches long, of a 

 smooth body, with very small scales, the 

 back of it is dark, but the belly pale : they 

 are to be met with in most rivers. 



This fish spawns twice in a year, the latter 

 end of April and in November; his flesh 

 is very well tasted, of easy digestion, and very 

 nourishing ; in so much, that some think it 

 no way inferior to a Smelt. He delights in 

 sandy, gravelly bottoms, gentle streams, and 

 small rivers ; in the summer time he resorts 

 to the shallows, in the winter to the deeps: 

 he bites all day from April to Michaelmas, 

 from about an hour after the sun rises to an 

 hour before he sets. The principal baits are 

 small red worms, gilt-tails, brandlings, and 

 meadow-worms; he will likewise take a 

 gentle, cod-bait, brood of wasps, or cow- 

 dung-lob, but the small red worm is what 

 pleases him best. 



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