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put into your stews. If two, you can have different 

 sizes, each by themselves : if thought proper, the 

 spawners and milters may be kept separate. It is good 

 to feed them in the stews, with corn, wash from a 

 scullery, and new grains mixed with blood, &c. Your 

 stews should be down a reach, or stream, and good 

 pond-stocks, so that the water can be quickly drawn off, 

 when, with a landing-net, you can take fish out at a 

 short notice. 



FISHING. 



THIS sport is divided into netting, snaring, bobbing, 

 and angling with rod, hook, and line ; and a variety of 

 baits living, artificial, or dead. Of river fish, the most 

 esteemed are the salmon, trout, pike, grayling, perch, 

 roach, dace, chub, barbel, pope or ruff, smelt, gudgeon, 

 and eel. The principal pond-fish are carp, tench, and 

 eels. 



The fishing-tackle should in the first instance be 

 purchased ; but if home-made, the rod should be ground 

 hazel, the cob-nut is best, though ground ash is some- 

 times used. For the bag-rod, hiccory and bamboo 

 shaved are the best; the joints must be made to fit 

 with the utmost nicety. The salmon-rod is generally 

 made of ash, with a whalebone top. Lines must be 

 made of horsehair or silk ; the hairs even, and of a gray 

 or white colour for clear water, but of a reddish brown 



