View on the Lea ; Chingford. 



THE FOURTH DAY. 



(Continued.) 



'CHAPTER XL 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE TENCH, AND ADVICE HOW TO ANGLE FOB HIM. 



Piscator. The Tench, the physician of fishes, is observed 

 to love ponds better than rivers, and to love pits better than 

 either; yet Camden observes there is a river in Dorsetshire 1 

 that abounds with tenches, but doubtless they retire to the 

 most deep and quiet places in it. 2 



bottoms ; and the broadest and most quiet places of ponds, and where 

 there are weeds. 



They spawn about the beginning of July ; a little before which time 

 they are best in season, though some think them best in September. 



The baits for the bream are : red worms ; small lob, or marsh-worms ; 

 gentles ; and grasshoppers. 



In general, they are to be fished -for as carp. H. 



1 The Stour, BROWNE. 



2 Daniel, in his " Rural Sports," makes mention of a Tench found in 

 draining a stagnant pond, at Thornville Royal, which was shut up in a hole, 

 the shape whereof he had in consequence assumed. It was two feet nine 

 inches from eye to fork, two feet three inches in circumference, and 

 weighed eleven pounds and nine ounces. I saw two taken from an old 

 weedy pond, then nearly dry, which weighed eight pounds each. ED. 



