184 THE DRIFFIELD .ANGLER. 



o'clock, and from three until sun-set : but if 

 the day be dark, cloudy, gloomy, or lowering, 

 especially if at such a time also a gentle 

 breeze blows from any quarter, even from 

 the east, you will not fail of catching fish in 

 any hour of the day ; but in March, the be- 

 ginning of April, September, and all the 

 winter months, you may angle all the day, 

 from about an hour after sun-rise until about 

 sun-set, either in muddy or clear water ; and 

 you may even angle all the day in muddy 

 water, from the middle of April until the end 

 of August, but early in the morning and late 

 in the evening are the best times. 



When floods have carried away all the 

 'filth that the rain had washed from the higher 

 grounds into the river, so that the river keep- 

 eth its usual bounds, and of a chesnut brown 

 or ale colour, it is then good to angle at 

 ground, at the conflux of rivers ; and when 

 it ebbs and flows, fish sometimes bite very 

 well, but in the ebb most usually, and also 

 .at pointing of a tide. Fish rise best at the 



