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them in the spring ; in summer gentles and sal- 

 mon roe. They rise freely at natural flies, par- 

 ticularly the house-fly, bluebottle, and stone-fly, 

 and in the evening at the various sorts of moths. 

 You must dib for them as cautiously as for chub, 

 keeping carefully out of sight. In bottom-fishing 

 your success will be augmented by ground-baiting 

 with lumps of clay mixed with clotted bullock's 

 blood. 



THE GUDGEON. 



This is a good, game, little fish, and the best 

 to initiate the young angler into the art of 

 bottom- fishing. The best bait is a very small 

 red worm or a part of one. Hundreds of them 

 are to be caught in the moderately shallow 

 streams of the Thames, and indeed in the shal- 

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