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good fortune in catching this fish, that I 

 shall try all day to-morrow with the bait, for 

 more fish of the same kind. 



HAL. You may do so; but many of these 

 fish cannot be caught; they migrate gene- 

 rally when the water is foul, and except in 

 the spring and early summer, do not so 

 readily run at the bait. I was once nearly 

 a month seeking for one in rivers in which 

 they are found, between the end of June 

 and that of July, without being able to suc- 

 ceed in even seeing one alive ; and as far as 

 my information goes, the two places where 

 there is most probability of taking them, is 

 at Laybach and Ratisbon, in the tributary 

 streams to the Sava, and in the Danube; 

 and the best time in the first of these situa- 

 tions, is in March and April, and in the se- 

 cond, in May. I am told, likewise, that the 

 Izar, which runs by Munich, is a stream 

 where these fish may be caught, when the 

 water is clear: but I have never fished in 

 this stream it having been foul, either from 

 rain, or the melting of the snows, whenever 

 I have been at Munich ; but I have seen in 



