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hook will often render the artificial fly more 

 attractive. Dace may be caught by dibbing for 

 them with the live house-fly, the flesh-fly, and 

 natural ant-flies. Generally speaking, dace delight 

 in rapid currents, scowers, and eddies. The point 

 of junction between two streams is a favour- 

 ite resort for them, and they are seldom absent 

 from mill-tails. In hot weather they retire 

 into the deeps, and seek for shelter beneath 

 aquatic plants and the boughs of trees. Near 

 London the largest dace are to be caught in 

 the Colne, where they take the artificial fly well, 

 and afford good sport, if trout are not on the 

 rise. The scowers at Richmond, Thames Dit- 

 ton, Hampton, Sunbury, Walton, Wey bridge, and 

 Laleham, are full of dace, and the localities well 

 adapted for the use of the artificial fly. 



THE ROACH. Cyprinus Rutilus. 



This very pretty species of carp is a great 

 favourite with London anglers, and by their skill 

 in catching it they prove their superiority as 



