114 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



produces a vibrating sensation from the wrist to 

 the shoulder, when you must instantly strike. 



Editor. 



Barbel fishing, like some other individual ang- 

 ling, finds devotees, who pursue it with singular 

 ardour. There are barbel fishers who appear to 

 feel little amusement in taking any other fish. 

 Such often become great adepts; they under- 

 stand the time, seasons, bait, and localities best 

 suited to the purpose, so as to be seldom disap- 

 pointed in their sport. Their patience is inex- 

 haustible, their indifference to loss of time great, 

 and the distances they travel to visit their favourite 

 haunts, shews the anxiety which the hope of suc- 

 cess creates in them. It is well known that cold 

 weather, even the slightest frost puts an entire 

 stop to this sport, but rain following a long drought 

 stirs up these fish to take their usual baits with 

 astonishing avidity. Editor. 



Three of the largest barbel ever caught at 

 Hampton, by angling, were taken by a gentle- 

 man, of Burlington-street. They weighed thirty- 

 nine pounds ; the general weight of barbel is from 

 two to eighteen pounds. Daniel's Sports. 



The editor of these anecdotes caught, at Shep- 

 perton, one morning before breakfast, twenty- 

 eight pounds of barbel, one of which lot weighed 



