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water ; Broxbourn bridge. Scorers, graves, lob- 

 worms, and gentles are the best baits, but all 

 best at times. Ledger is the best method : some 

 anglers use a piece of tobacco-pipe fixed on the 

 line, in a similar manner to the lead, and cover the 

 pipe with a ball of clay ; the latter method I take 

 to be the best, for when you strike a fish, you dis- 

 engage your line from the weight of your ledger. 

 New Sporting Mag. Sept. 1834. 



Most extraordinary met hod of taking Barbel. 

 Darcy, who kept a music-shop at Oxford, though 

 very lusty,was an excellent swimmer; he used to dive 

 after barbel into a deep hole near the four streams, 

 a bathing-place well known to the Oxonians, 

 and having remained under water a minute, he 

 returned with a brace of barbel, one in each hand. 

 The report that Darcy made, was, that many of 

 these fish lay with their heads against the bank, 

 in parallel lines, like horses, in their stalls. They 

 were not disturbed at his approach, but allowed 

 him to come close to them, and select the finest. 

 New Monthly Mag. 1 820, Part II. 



Barbel are taken in the Danube, of a much 

 larger size than in our waters. After a dreadful 

 carnage between the Turks and Austrians, on the 

 banks of the Danube, barbel were found in it of 

 such a vast size, and in such numbers, as to be- 

 come a matter of record ; and as their propensity 



