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Title: The complete angler : or The contemplative man's recreation
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687 Major, John, 1782-1849
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York : Burt
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e biggest. But there is akind of bastard small Roach that breeds in ponds, with a veryforked tail, and of a very small size, which some say is bred bythe Bream and right Roach, and some ponds are stored withthese beyond belief; and kn^^wine men that know their dif- Chap. XVII.) THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 201 ference call them Ruds : they differ from the true Roach asmuch as a Herring from a Pilchard. And these bastard breedof Roach are now scattered in many rivers, but I think not inthe Thames, which I believe affords the largest and fattest inthis nation, especially below London Bridge. The Roach isa leather - mouthed fish, and has a kind of saw - like teeth inhis throat. And lastly, let me tell you, the Roach makes anAngler excellent sport, especially the great Roaches about Lon-don, where I think there be the best Roach-Anglers; and Ithink the best Trout-Anglers be in Derbyshire, for the watersthere are clear to an extremity. Next, let me tell you, you shall fish for this Roach in winter
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with paste or gentles; in April, with worms or cadis; inthe very hot months, with little white snails, or with fliesunder water, for he seldom takes them at the top, though theDace will. In many of the hot months. Roaches may also becaught thus: take a May-fly or Ant-fly, sink him with a littlelead to the bottom near to the piles or posts of a bridge, ornear to any posts of a weir, I mean any deep place whereRoaches lie quietly, and then pull your fly up very leisurely, andusually a Roach will follow your bait to the very top of the 202 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. (Part L water, and gaze on it there, and run at it and take it lest thefly should fly away from him. I have seen this done at Windsor and Henley Bridge, andgreat store of Roach taken; and sometimes a Dace or Chub.And in August you may fish for them with a paste made onlyof the crumbs of bread, which should be of pure fine man-chet; and that paste must be so tempered betwixt your handstill it be both soft and tough too: a very littl

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