. 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. 154 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. fasten a very large ledger lead, or a piece of flat lead, which should weigh nearly a pound, to keep the hooks and line from drifting; use hooks of the size No. 6, tied to twisted gut, silk, or fine gimp, and bait with pieces of lean corned boiled beef, about the size of a broad bean. If you hold the line in your hand, you will feel a bite ; snatch the line sharp, and with f
. 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. 154 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. fasten a very large ledger lead, or a piece of flat lead, which should weigh nearly a pound, to keep the hooks and line from drifting; use hooks of the size No. 6, tied to twisted gut, silk, or fine gimp, and bait with pieces of lean corned boiled beef, about the size of a broad bean. If you hold the line in your hand, you will feel a bite ; snatch the line sharp, and with force, and you will hook the Eel.—Note, this mode of fishing should be practised from the ebbing of the tide until it is quite low The Grayling, or Umber. The Grayling, or Umber, is not to be met with in the rivers about London, but abounds in the river Tem, about nine miles from Ludlow, and in the Severn, the Wye, and the Trent; the nearest river I have found them in to London, is the Avon, at Salisbury: they delight in rapid streams, and, so swift are their movements, that the Roman poet, Decius Ausonius says of 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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