20*2 TUB COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



and tell you, in the next place, how you are to prepare 

 your tackling : concerning which, I will, for sport sake, 



been caught of two pound* and a half weight : but Roach of any cure are hardly 

 to be come at without a boat. 



The hauoU of Dace aie. gravelly, sandy, and clayey bottoms; deep holes 

 that are shaded ; water lily leaves ; and under the foam caused by an eddy : in 

 hot weather, they are to be found on the shallows, and are then best taken with 

 an artificial fly, grasshoppers, or gentles, as hereafter directed. 



Dace (>wo about the Utter end of March : and are in seaton about three 

 week* after: they are not very good till about Michaelmas, aitd are best in 

 Febntary. 



Baits for Dace* other than those mentioned by Walton, are. the o-k-vrorm, 

 red. worm, brandling, gilt tail; and indeed any worm, bred on trees or bushes, 

 that is not too Wg for bb Mouth ; almost all kinds of Hies and caterpillars. 



Though Dace are often caught with a float, Roach, yet they re not so 

 properly float-Ash : for they are to be taken with an artificial gnat, or ant-fly, 

 or indeed almost any other small fly in its season ; but in the Thames, above 

 (are caught with a natural green or dun grasshopper, nd 

 with (collet ; with both which you ate to fish as with aa artitii i.l 

 fly. They are not to be come at till about September, when the weeds begin to 

 rot ; hut when you have found where they lie, which, in a warm day, is generally 

 oo th- shallows, 'tis incredible what havock you may make : pinch off the first 

 joint of the grasshopper's left, pot the point of the hook in at the head, and 

 bring it owl at the tail; and in this way of fishing you will catch Chub, espe- 

 cially if you throw under the bought. 



Bet this caa be done only in a boat ; for the management whereof, be provided 

 with a staff, and heavy stone fastened to a strong rope of four or five yards in 

 length : fasten the rope to the head of the boat, which, whether it be a punt or 

 wherry, b equity At for this purpose, and so drive down with the stream : 

 when yon roo>e to a shallow or other place where the fish are likely to lie, 

 drop the stone, and standing in the stern, throw right down the stream, and a 

 little to the tight and left : after trying about a quarter of an hour in a place, 

 with the stiff push the boat about five yards down, and so throw again. Use a 

 common fly-line, about ten yards long, with a strong single hair next the hook. 



It b true, there b less certainty of catching in this way than with a float or 

 groood-b.it : for which reason. I would recommend It only to those who live 

 near the banks of that delighiiol river, between Windsor and I tie worth, who 

 have or cn command a bo*i for that purpose, and cn take advantage of a still, 

 warm, gloomy day ; and to sech it will afford much more diversion than the 

 ordinary inartificial method offiihiog in the deeps for Roach and Dace. 



In fishing at bottom for Roach and Dace, nse for ground-bait bread soaked 

 about an hour in water, and an equal quantity of bran ; knead them to a tough 

 consistence, and make them up into btlls, with a <mll pebble in the middle : 

 and throw these balls in where you fish ; but be sure to throw them up the 

 stream, for otherwise they will draw the fish beyond the reach of your line. 



Flab for Roach within six, and for Dace within three inches of the bottom. 



Having enumerated the Baitt proper for every kind of fish in their respective 

 placet, it may not be amiss here to mention one which many authors speak of as 

 excellent for almost all fish ; and that is the spawn of Salmon, or large Trout. 

 Barker, who seems to have been the first that discovered it. recommends it to 

 bis patroo in the following terms : 

 Noble Lord, 



" I have foand an experience of Uu>, which yon may angle with, and take 

 great store of this kind of osh. First, it is the best bait for a Trout that I have 



