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Cyprinus Alburnus. -Bleak 

 . . . . Brama. Bream. 

 Genus Cobitis. 



Cobitis Barbatula. Loach. 



Of the above species, some, such as the char, are 

 seldom taken with the rod and line. The burbot is 

 mostly caught by setting night lines ; and such " small 

 gear" as the loach, minnow, and stickleback, are 

 only taken by the angler for bait or by boys for 

 amusement. The miller's thumb is seldom or never 

 expressly angled for; but is .occasionally caught 

 when angling for other fish. 



As angling is in its very essence an art of de- 

 ceiving, and as the fish which are most deserving of 

 the angler's attention are extremely shy, whoever 

 wishes to catch them must keep himself as 

 much out of their sight as he can. He who treats 

 the fish to a view of the whole process of fitting 

 the rod, screwing or tying on the reel, putting on 

 his flies, or baiting his hooks as he sits upon a 

 bank which overlooks the stream, ought to com- 

 mence his operations at least half a mile farther 

 off. An angler showing himself on the banks 

 of a trout-stream, when the water is clear, ope- 

 rates as a general warning for every fish to take 

 care of himself. An immediate spread takes place, 

 similar to that of the group of authors on the ap- 

 pearance of a bailiff as the scene is somewhere so 

 graphically sketched by Dr. Johnson each suspect- 



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