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of the clock, visit them again for four hours, which is the 

 best sport of all ; and after that, let them rest till you and 

 your friends have a mind to more sport. 



From St. James's-tide until Bartholomew-tide is the 

 best; when they have had all the summer's food, they 

 are the fattest. 



Observe, lastly, that after three or four days fishing 

 together, your game will be very shy and wary, and you 

 shall hardly get above a bite or two at a baiting : then 

 your only way is to desist from your sport, about two or 

 three days : and in the mean time, (on the place you late 

 baited, and again intend to bait,) you shall take a turf 

 of green but short grass, as big or bigger than a round 

 trencher; to the top of this turf, on the green side, you 

 shall, with a needle and green thread, fasten, one by one, 

 as many little red worms as will near cover all the turf: 

 then take a round board or trencher, make a hole in the 

 middle thereof, and through the turf placed on the board 

 or trencher, with a string or cord as long as is fitting, 

 tied to a pole, let it down to the bottom of the water, for 

 the fish to feed upon without disturbance about two or 

 three days ; and after that you have drawn it away, you 

 may fall to, and enjoy your former recreation. 1 B. A. 



(I) The haunts of the Dream, a fish which the angler seldom meets with, are 

 the deepest and broadest parts of gentle soft streams, with sandy clayey bot- 

 toms ; and the broadest and most quiet places of ponds, and where there are 

 weeds. 



They spawn about the beginning of July ; a little before which time they are 

 tost in season, though some think them best in September. 



The baits for the Bream are, red-worms, small lob or marsh-worms, gentles, 

 and grasshoppers. 



In general, they are to be fished for as Carp. 



