368 • PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH. 



motion of the. float ; the bait is more easily taken and the 

 swims are not passed so rapidly. When the wind is strong and 

 the water very rough it is difficult to fish, or even to detect a 

 bite. This is very tantalising, and not unfrequently happens 

 through a shift in the wind when you are in a capital swim. 

 The remedy for this is to put on a nice light leger with three 

 hooks, and with which excellent sport may sometimes be had 

 ■when it would be impossible to fish in any other way. 



Turning to the bream, which is after all the mainstay of the 

 Norfolk angler, we find it uncertain in its movements. In the 

 summer and autumn it affects the deeper and stronger waters 

 of the lower reaches — on the Yare it is then principally found 

 between Langley Dyke and Reedham — and in the winter and 

 spring it prefers the shallower waters of the upper reaches, and 

 is often found in good quantity in the vicinity of Thorpe Broadj 

 and about Carrow and Trowse Ilythe, immediately below the 

 city of Norwich. On the Bure the bream appear to congregate 

 in the Broads, and make their appearance about the end of 

 May in the river. The best months to fish for them are July, 

 August, and September, and in warm weather the best time is 

 morning and evening. Commence with the first streak of dawn 

 if you wish to have good sport, and you can then afford to go to 

 sleep duripg the day. A friend assures me that he has had 

 capital sport by moonlight. The deepest waters- and quietest 

 eddies are as a rule the best, but large quantities of fipe bream 

 fire caught in the Bure at Wroxham in not more than four feet 

 find a half of water. Of course the bait must just touch the 

 bottom as it floats down stream. The fiSh bite best from about 

 half an hour before high water to half an hour after, and flpodr 

 tide is preferred to the ebb. They are, also supposed to bite 

 better during the wane of the moon. For ground-bait use boiled 

 piaize, barley, or wheat ; barley meal made into balls, chopped 

 worms, and boiled rice. The latter and grains are found very 

 attractive on the Bure. If there is a fair opportunity of doing 

 so, and the stream is not too strong, places are baited overnight; 

 and this is very successful on the Broad?,, The hook should bp 



