106 OBSERVATIONS 



a pale red colour, and soon after change to 

 flies ; do not throw the red ones away, roach 

 and dace frequently take the pale ones with 

 a white one in preference to all other baits. 

 As an angler is not always succefsful, you 

 will often catch a chub or roach, unfit to 

 cook, and unworthy of any body's accept- 

 ance, these may be appropriated to this 

 purpose. 



Many authors recommend a piece of 

 bullock's liver, suspended by a stick over a 

 barrel of clay, into which the gentles fall, 

 and scour themselves ; this is a very bad 

 plan, clay will not scour the?n t and they 

 fall from the liver before they have attained 

 their full size. The plan I have recom- 

 mended, will be found preferable, and not 

 disgusting even to the squeamish angler, 

 for a short time after the oatmeal and bran 

 are put to the gentles, the fish in which they 

 were bred, will be found perfect skeletons, 

 and may be thrown away. 



