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and dace. In half an hour they had caught a great 

 number. They looked rather frightened when I 

 shot out from my hiding-place and examined their 

 sport and the net. 



I have not space to chat about setting night 

 lines, in which art the Norfolk yachtsmen are no 

 mean proficients ; of smelting in the Yare ; of net- 

 ting the weedy pools in Cheshire with a flue net ; 

 of setting hoop nets for tench baited with a bunch 

 of flowers or a brass candlestick, which attract the 

 too curious fish ; of eel bays and weirs, and the 

 large eel nets set in the Bure from below Acle to 

 Yarmouth ; of leistering salmon and snaring pike ; 

 of casting nets used for unlawful purposes ; of 

 snatch-hooks and salmon roe, and other like deadly 

 means of compassing the destruction of the finny 

 tribe ; but I fancy I have said enough to call to 

 the angler's remembrance that his rod and line have 

 formidable rivals, and that it behoves him to do all 

 in his power to suppress and punish illegal and 

 unfair sport. 



