ON ANGLING. 6l 



and a small meshed casting, net will be very 

 serviceable, and save a great deal of trouble, 

 as plenty for a day's diversion may be caught 

 at a throw or two, in shallow streams. Min- 

 nows are prefered to either loaches or mil- 

 ler's thumbs. I have used small dace instead 

 of minnows (which are sometimes difficult 

 to procure) with such succefs, as induces 

 me to believe they are superior for chub ; 

 they are doubt lefs brighter, and of course 

 more easily discerned. If you are not in 

 pofsefsion of a minnow net, they may be 

 caught with a piece of small red worm, a 

 very small hook, and a crow quill float; 

 minnows will hang to the end oi the worm* 

 and thus suffer themselves to be pulled out. 

 Loaches and miller's thumbs may be used 

 for want of better baits ; they may be seen 

 sunning themselves on flat stones in a bright 

 day, in shallow streams, and will bite at a 

 small red worm put near them. 



