. The complete angler, or The contemplative man's recreation. Fishing. 25Q THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [Part I. winter with paste or gentles ; in April, with worms or cadis ; in the very hot months, with little white snails, or with flies under water, for he seldom takes them at the top, though the Dace will. In many of the hot months, Roaches may also be caught thus : take a May-fly or Ant-fly, sink him with a little lead to the bottom near to the piles or posts of a bridge, or near to any posts of a weir, 1 mean any deep place where Roaches lie quietly, and then pull your fly up very leisurely, and
. The complete angler, or The contemplative man's recreation. Fishing. 25Q THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [Part I. winter with paste or gentles ; in April, with worms or cadis ; in the very hot months, with little white snails, or with flies under water, for he seldom takes them at the top, though the Dace will. In many of the hot months, Roaches may also be caught thus : take a May-fly or Ant-fly, sink him with a little lead to the bottom near to the piles or posts of a bridge, or near to any posts of a weir, 1 mean any deep place where Roaches lie quietly, and then pull your fly up very leisurely, and usually a Roach will follow your bait to the very top of the water, and gaze on it there, and run at it and take it lest the fly should fly away from him. I have seen this done at Windsor and Henley Bridge, and great store of Roach taken ; and some- times a Dace or Chub. And in August you may fish for them with a paste made only of the crumbs of bread, which should be of pure fine manchet; and that paste must be so tempered betwixt your hands till it be both soft and tough too : a very little water, and time and labor, and clean hands, will make it a most excellent paste. But when you fish with it, you must have a small hook, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, or the bait is lost and the fish too; if one may lose that which he never had. With this paste you may, as I said, take both the Roach and the Dace or DARE,. 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 Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687; Major, John, 1782-1849, [from old catalog] ed. Boston, Little, Brown, and company
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