96 THE DKIFFIELB ANGLER. 



scales, very large fins, and its body is of 

 ,a yellowish brown. 



Their haunts are chiefly among weeds, 

 and in places that are well shaded with 

 bushes and rushes ; they delight and thrive 

 more in foul than clear water, and are much 

 more numerous in ponds, end pits, than in 

 rivers ; but those taken in the latter are far 

 preferable in their flavour ; it is a most de- 

 licious fish to the taste, and exceedingly 

 wholesome* 



They are to be angled for much in the 

 same way as Carp ; your tackle must be 

 strong, with a proper float, the hook No. 3, 

 to 6 or 7, whipped to a strong silk-worm 

 gut, with two or three shot, No. 2 ; fish 

 where there are weeds about two feet deep, 

 or at mid- water, and sometimes lower, ac- 

 cording as they are in the humour to take; 

 but if there be not a great quantity of mud 

 in the water, use clay balls, as for Perch, 

 and now. and then th.rowin a few gentles,, 



