50 SPAWNING OF CARP. [PART I. 
very killing dodge for them. It might be fastened 
on a “bank-runner.” 
Having noted, for some years, the days when 
the Carp were spawning in several ponds in the 
Isle of Wight, I find, on comparing my notes on 
the subject, the earliest of these days to have been 
the 19th of May, the latest the 3rd of July. The 
time of spawning seems to depend much on the 
mildness or backwardness of the spring, and also 
on the position of the water, the Carp being always 
earlier in a mild than in a cold season, and also 
earlier in sheltered ponds than in those which are 
exposed to currents of wind, and where the water 
is colder, in consequence of its depth, or the influx 
of a spring. I have, for instance, found the Carp 
spawning in the same pond as early, after a mild 
spring, as the 30th of May, and, after a backward 
one, as late as the Ist of July ; and, again, in the 
same year I have seen them spawning, in a shel- 
tered pond, on the 19th of May, and, in a compara- 
tively exposed and deep one, on the 1st of July, 
the ponds being supplied by the same run of 
water and only about a third of a mile apart, the 
lower of the two being the earlier. My observa- 
tions would lead me to conclude that the process 
of spawning, with Carp, does not generally 
