NO. VI. APPENDIX. 373 



1764 Ditto in the county of Carmarthen, to 23d 3 



July, being my last day's angling in > 1814 

 the principality 



The whole given to the public 47120 



The rich, the poor, the sick, and the healthy, have 

 tasted of the labour of my hands. 



In the first nine months in the year 1751, I took in the 

 counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen above a thousand 

 trouts : and though I have taken trouts in every month 

 in the year since, yet I could not, in any one year, reach 

 that number. Perhaps I have done it before 1751 ; but I 

 did not then keep an account all the year round, only 

 noted those days in which I had diversion more than 

 common. 



N. B. There were some pike and chub, eel and floun- 

 der taken, which* are not noted in the above account. 1 



No. VI. 



Additional RULES and CAUTIONS. 



I. WHEN you have hooked a fish, never suffer him to 

 run out with the line ; but keep your rod bent, and as 

 near perpendicular as you can : by this method the top 

 plies to every pull he makes, and you prevent the strain- 

 ing of your line, for the same reason. 



II. Never raise a large fish out of the water by taking 

 the hair to which your hook is fastened, or indeed any 

 part of the line, into your hand ; but either put a landing- 

 net under him, or, for want of that, your hat : you may 

 indeed, in fly-fishing, lay hold of your line to draw a fisn 

 to you, but this must be done with caution. 



III. Your silk for whipping hooks and other fine work 



(I) If I had the honour of an acquaintance with this keeu and laborious 

 Sportsman, I might possibly at times have checked him in the ardour of his pur- 

 suit, by reminding him of that excellent maxim, " No. quid nimis," i. e. Nothing 

 too much. The pleasure of angling consists not so much in the number of fish 

 we catch, as in the exercise of our art, the gratification of our hopes, and the 

 reward of our skill and ingenuity : were it possible for an angler to be sure of 

 every cast of his fly, so that for six hours together his hook should never come 

 home without a fish at it, angling would be no more a recreation than the saw- 

 ing of stone, or the pumping of water. 



