The art of angling greatly improved, containing the most esteemed methods of angling for pond and river fish .. . -geon, is to rake up the sand or gravel, and bythat means render the water thick and foul,which will make them bite the faster. Oranother plan may be adopted, of throwingdried earth or dust into the river ; but if thewater be made thick with rain they will notbite. They will take gentles or the cow-dung worm, but the small red-worm is themost killing bait for them. The Gudgeon isnot a shy fish; on the contrary, if they bedriven from their customary places of resort,they will immedi
The art of angling greatly improved, containing the most esteemed methods of angling for pond and river fish .. . -geon, is to rake up the sand or gravel, and bythat means render the water thick and foul,which will make them bite the faster. Oranother plan may be adopted, of throwingdried earth or dust into the river ; but if thewater be made thick with rain they will notbite. They will take gentles or the cow-dung worm, but the small red-worm is themost killing bait for them. The Gudgeon isnot a shy fish; on the contrary, if they bedriven from their customary places of resort,they will immediately return to them. A single-hair line, a fine taper rod, a floatand a small hook, must be used, and thebait must drag upon the ground. In fishing for Gudgeon a rake is indispen-sable, with which the bottom of the river mustbe raked every quarter of an hour, and thefish will flock to the place in shoals. The Gudgeon will never rise at the fly. Itis a fish in some request, both for its flavourand the sport it affords to the inexperiencedangler. It is very simple, and is allured byalmost any kind of bait. 64. Eel. It lias been long a matter of dispute inwhat manner Eels are generated. Lacepede,the eminent French naturalist, decides, in themost unqualified terms, that they are vivipo-rous; whilst, on the other hand, Sir Hum-phrey Davy, in his Salmonia, considers themto be oviparous. Sir Everard Home regardsthem as hermaphrodites. Leaving this dis-pute, however, to be settled by naturalists,we have only to instruct the angler in whatmanner they are to be caught. The favourite haunts cf Eels are still wa-ters amongst weeds, under the roots of treesand large stones, and in the clefts of the banksof rivers. The habits of the Eel are noctur-nal, and the finest and largest are usuallycaught with night-lines. The best bait forangling is the lob-worm, the hook small,about No. 3 or 4, and it is proper to use asmall plumb or pistol-bullet. They bite bestin dark cloudy vveather, after show
Size: 2198px × 1137px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, bookidartofangling, bookyear1846
