leave the flesh, which will be by that time very firm and perfectly clean. Open the belly, take out the inside, aud use anchovy aud butter for sauce.

Red paste is an excellent bait, coloured with vermilion or red lead as I have before laid down, but it is best to take with you gentles, white paste, and their other baits, as they are very fond of change, and will refuse one minute what they will take the next. Their hooks No. 11 or 12.

THE DACE OR DARE.

This fish, and the roach, are much of the same kind, therefore the directions given for one will serve for the other. They spawn about the middle of March, and will take any fly, especially the Stonecadew-fly, May-fly, the latter end of April and most part of May; and the ant-fly in June, July, and August. When you angle for the dace with the ant-fly under water, let it be about two hands' breadth from the ground. They never refuse a fly in a warm day on the top of the water. The best bait for them in the winter, is the earth-bob, it is the spawn of the beetle, and is to be found by following the plough in sandyish grounds; put them into a vessel with some of the earth from whence they are taken, and use them all the winter as an excellent bait, as I have before-mentioned in the description of baits. As for your line, &c. the directions given for the roach, will serve in all respects for the dace or dare.

Dace may be also taken with flesh-flies, upon the surface of the water; into whose backs, between the wings, you must put your hook, which should be very small: they bite in the morning

and evening; you must then provide a cane-rod, which is the lightest of any, and let it be seventeen feet at least in length, and your line which should, from the middle downwards, consist of single-hairs, be a little longer than your rod; then provide a sufficient quantity of small house-flies, which keep in a phial, stopped with a cork. With these repair, especially about seven or eight o'clock in a summer's evening, to a mill-stream, and having fixed three or four hooks, with single-hair links, not above four inches long to your line, bait them with the flies, and angle upon the surface of the water on the smoothest part, at the end of the stream; the dace will rise freely, especially if the sun does not shine on that part of the water where you cast the flies, and you may take two or three at a time. This sport will continue as long as day-light will permit you to see the flies. In the same manner dace will also rise at the antfly upon the surface of the water, if used in a morning at the foot of a current or mill-stream or on the scour before the sun comes on the water. If the water is high, so as to be almost equal with its banks, take your fly-rod, and fasten to your line an artificial-fly, called the caterpillar-fly, or a small red palmer, then take a large yellow gentle, the yellower the better, run the hook through the skin of it, and draw it up to the tail of the fly: this being done, whip it on the surface of the water, and if you are diligent and expert, you will have good diversion. If you angle where two mill-streams are going at the same time, let it be in the eddy between the two streams: first make use of your plummet; if the water is deep, angle within a foot of the bottom, and perhaps you will find but poor sport; but if it proves to be shallow, that is, about

the depth of two feet, or not exceeding three, your sport may be better; bait your hook with three large gentles, use a cork-float, be very attentive, and strike at the very first bite: if there are any large dace in the mill-pool, they will resort to the eddy between the two streams.

N. B. Whenever you fish for roach or dace, at ground, without you use a ground-bait, the attempt is almost useless; but after great heats, when the weather, gets cool, you will be sure to have good sport.-The hooks, No. 11 or 12.

THE GUDGEON.

The gudgeon is a fish that affords the young angler an amazing deal of diversion; being one that bites very free, and when struck is never lost, because he is a leather-mouthed fish. They spawn three or four times in the summer, and their feeding is like the barbel's, in the streams and on gravel, slighting all manner of flies. Their baits are chiefly wasps, gentles, and cads, but the small red worm is best. When you angle for them, be pro'vided with a gudgeon-rake, with which rake the ground every ten minutes, which gathers them together. A single-haired line is best, with a quill, or cork-float, according to the rapidity of the stream; your hook No. 8 or 9, and bait on your the ground. You may angle for him with a running line by hand without a float.

The author" On Angling in the River Trent," gives us a new method of catching them: he first desires us 66. never to continue in the water long, though he has been in it for six hours together;" he then observes, with his usual circumspection, "that the best way of catching them, is by going

into the water, and stirring up the sand and gravel." This surely may be properly termed gudgeon-hunting more than gudgeon-fishing: perhaps they are of a different species in the Trent than in the Thames, &c. &c. !!

THE POPE OR RUFF.

This fish, with a double name, is small, and rarely grows bigger than a gudgeon; in shape very like the perch, but is better food, being in the taste as pleasant as any fish whatever. His haunts are in the deepest running parts of a gravelly river, the exact bottom whereof, having found by plumbing, bait your hooks with small red worms, or brandlings; for you may angle with two or three, and have excellent sport. He bites very greedily; and as they swim in shoals, you may catch twenty or thirty at one standing, in a cool, gloomy day. Use the same tackle as for the gudgeon. The River Yare in Norfolk, is peculiar for plenty of ruffs. Hook, No. 9.

THE BLEAK OR BLEY.

The bleak, on account of its eagerness to catch flies, is called by some the river-swallow, and by others the fresh-water-sprat, because of its resemblance to the sea-sprat.. He bites very eagerly at all sorts of worms, flies, pastes, and sheep's blood. You may fish for him with six or seven small hooks at a time. He is an excellent fish to initiate a young angler in fly-fishing, by his whipping for them in a hot summer's evening, with a small artificial black gnat. Your tackle

must be fine and neatly formed. He is a capital bait for the pike. Hook, No. 13.

THE MINNOW OR PINK.

The minnow, though one of the smallest fishes, is as excellent a one to eat as any of the most famed. They are generally found in March and April, and remain till the cold weather compels them to retire to their winter-quarters. He is of a greenish, or wavy sky-colour, his belly very white, his back blackish; and is a most excellent bait for any of the fish of prey: namely, the pike, trout, perch, &c. His baits are small red worms, wasps, cads, &c. If you can catch enough of them, they make an excellent tansy, their heads and tails being cut off, and fried in eggs, with a sauce made of butter, sugar, and verjuice. The smallest of hooks.

THE LOACH OR LOCH.

This fish is very small, but eats very well, and is nourishing food for sick persons. He is found in clear, swift brooks and rivulets, and his food is gravel. He is bearded like the barbel, and freckled with black and white spots. You may take him with a small red worm, at ground; he delights to be near the gravel, therefore is hardly ever seen on the top of the water. The smallest of hooks.

THE BULL-HEAD OR MILLER'S THUMB.

This fish, on account of its ugliness, is in some places called the fresh-water devil; he has a broad