122 ANGLING 



is required than in snaring a pike. This is by no 

 means an uncommon practice in Prance. 



Note to Chapter VIII 



Blakey writes learnedly of the carp, but its remarkable shy- 

 ness, I should imagine, would place it at the very bottom of the list 

 of the British fresh-water fish which yields sport to the angler. 

 They are most numerous in old lakes and moats, but most diffi- 

 cult to catch with the angle. The reference on p. 121 to the 

 months in which carp may be angled for takes no account of 

 fence months, for the obvious reason that there was no Mundella's 

 Act during Blakey's prime ; that useful measure became law in 

 the year of his death. The carp, under its provisions, is included 

 with the coarse fish which are protected from March 15 to June 15. 

 — W. S. 



