The art of angling greatly improved, containing the most esteemed methods of angling for pond and river fish .. . llest hooks are the most pre*per for them, and a paternoster line, that is,a single-hair line, with six or seven hooks,each three or four inches above the other, bait-ed with gentles, or cadis, well scoured. Thepaste recommended for Bream, forms a goodbait for the Bleak. It frequents deep rivers, 62 sandy bottoms, in eddies. Had at the stemsof ships. The Bleak may be caught \Yith a very fineartificial fly, of a sad brown colour, and verysmall, and the hook of a proportionate
The art of angling greatly improved, containing the most esteemed methods of angling for pond and river fish .. . llest hooks are the most pre*per for them, and a paternoster line, that is,a single-hair line, with six or seven hooks,each three or four inches above the other, bait-ed with gentles, or cadis, well scoured. Thepaste recommended for Bream, forms a goodbait for the Bleak. It frequents deep rivers, 62 sandy bottoms, in eddies. Had at the stemsof ships. The Bleak may be caught \Yith a very fineartificial fly, of a sad brown colour, and verysmall, and the hook of a proportionate angling for Bleak in the Thames, the baitmust be laid in deeper than in other rivers;and it is to be observed, that generally inrivers the Bleak continues sound and health-ful during the whole of the summer. Thereis not any better sport than whipping forBleaks in a boat or on a bank in swift waterson a summers evening, with a hazle top aboutfive or six inches long, and a line twice thelength of the rod. The Bleak is an excellentfish to initiate a young angler in fly-fishingIt forms a capital bait for Gudgeon. The Gudgeon spawns twice or three timesin the course of the year, and is in seasonfrom March to October. In the summer itdelights in shallow streams, the bottoms ofwhich are sandy and gravelly. They will fi*e- 63 quently bite during the whole of the day froman hour after sun-rise till within an hour ofsun-set, without any particular considerationas to the state of the weather. In autumn,when the weeds begin to rot, they retire intothe deep waters. The customary method of angling for Gud-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
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