48 OBSERVATIONS 



which will enable you to bait the pins more 

 readily. A boat will be useful in laying 

 these lines, but you must be careful to free 

 the flounder line after the first weight is 

 thrown in, or it will drag with the boat, and 

 the line will not lie in the place you wish. 



Flounder lines will take eels, but not large 

 ones, they must be well dried or they will 

 soon rot. 



I cannot quit the subject without remark- 

 ing an error, which even the learned annotator 

 on Walton, has committed in his Complete 

 Angler, sixth edition, page 182, (a book I 

 have read with great satisfaction, not only 

 for the instructions it contains on angling, 

 but for the simplicity and unaffected piety, 

 which is so conspicuous in every page) he 

 there observes, that flounders are seldom 

 caught by angling. Every schoolboy who 

 has angled in the Trent , can contradict this 

 assertion ; I have known ten pounds weight 

 taken by two anglers in one afternoon, and 



