. The angler's guide; being a new, plain, and complete practical treatise on the art of angling for sea, river, and pond fish, deduced from many years practice, experience, and observation. Fishing. 84 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. use tolerably strong tackle. Some Anglers then put on two No. 9 hooks, about ten inches apart, one above the other, with a tolerably heavy float, and let the bottom hook drag two or three inches on the ground, and fish in strong eddies, at mill-tails, &c., and meet with much sport, sometimes taking Trout while so fishing.—Note, cook large Dace same way as direct- ed for R
. The angler's guide; being a new, plain, and complete practical treatise on the art of angling for sea, river, and pond fish, deduced from many years practice, experience, and observation. Fishing. 84 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. use tolerably strong tackle. Some Anglers then put on two No. 9 hooks, about ten inches apart, one above the other, with a tolerably heavy float, and let the bottom hook drag two or three inches on the ground, and fish in strong eddies, at mill-tails, &c., and meet with much sport, sometimes taking Trout while so fishing.—Note, cook large Dace same way as direct- ed for Roach, in page 80. CHAP. The Tench. The Tench is generally prized as a fine rich Fish in England, but it is not so much esteemed on the con- tinent: the Germans, in derision, call it the Shoe- maker ; but they are very scarce in most rivers and streams about London 5 some few are taken in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), fl. 1814-1826. London, Sherwood
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