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lion. This extraordinary fish, after having been minutely inspected by many gentlemen, was carefully put into a pond. At first, it merely floated; but at last it swam gently away, though with some difficulty. A fine print of it is to be seen in the Rural Sports. Daniel.

Mr. Pennant has heard of one tench that weighed ten pounds; and Salvianus speaks of some that weighed twenty pounds, which were thick in proportion to the length. When well fed, the tench weigh about eight pounds. Mr. Geoffroy found in a tench a tape-worm, two feet and a half long; nevertheless, the fish was very healthy and fat.

Great quantities of fine tench are caught in Brecknockshire Mere.

RUDD.

The rudd is not usually met with; it is only in some particular parts of England that it inhabits. deep and gentle streams, in holes, among the weeds, slimy mud, soft gravel. Mr. Daniel says, they are worth the angler's attention. The tackle must be strong and fine; they take the same baits as the carp or chub; others also angle for them as for roach. Bait with gentles, red worm, wasp maggots, and red paste, using a ground. bait of boiled malt. They bite at the top of the

water; and if among weeds, use neither lead nor float. Rudd produce ninety-one thousand ova; and are found of two pounds weight. Some very fine rudd may be caught at Dagenham Breach. In 1796, at Kempton Hoo, near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, a rudd was caught with a minnow, which is extraordinary, from the situation of teeth in the throat, which property belongs only to fish of prey.

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This fish is well known in England, but is not held in such high estimation as on the continent, where it attains a very large size, and where its flesh is of a more delicate flavour.

try bream delight and thrive most in receive the drains of the farm-yard. good diversion to the angler.

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always be strong, and the baits must be the same as for carp and tench. Breams are very prolific -in one taken, one hundred and thirty thousand ova were found. Dagenham Breach is celebrated for large bream. Three gentlemen of my acquaint

ance caught here two large stable pails full of them in one afternoon.

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The young bream are called chads, and have not the lateral spot until the second year of their growth. Mr. Couch.

Sir James Caldwell caught seventeen hundred weight of bream and pike in one day in the Lough Erne.

Bream have been taken in the Trent of eight pounds weight. Lin. Trans. vol. xiv.

In the lakes of Prussia bream are taken from under the ice to the value of £200 at a time; they are also caught in great quantities in Holstein, Livonia, and Sweden; not less than fifty thousand were taken in one lake at one time, they weighed eighteen thousand two hundred pounds.

Goldsmith Abridged.

Bream are held in high repute on the continent, where they abound in the lakes, and the fisheries are rented at a high price. The flesh is finer and whiter than in England. They are sometime two or three feet in length,-those of twelve and fourteen pounds are preferred for the Donovan.

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Dr. Bloch says bream are one of the most important fish in his country (Prussia); the fisheries for bream are very considerable in the lakes of the kingdom of Prussia. In Sweden the bream weighs from twelve to twenty pounds,-they use a bell to drive the fish to their nets. Dr. Bloch found in

a fish of six pounds one hundred and thirty-seven thousand eggs.

Gesner reports, that in Poland a great number of breams were put into a pond, which, in the following winter was frozen into entire ice, and not one drop of water remaining, nor one of these fish to be found though diligently searched, and yet, in the spring, when the ice was thawed, and the weather warm, they all appeared again.

The bream have great enemies in the buzzard and other birds of prey, but it often happens when the bream are large and strong, and the buzzard has struck his talons far into the back of the fish, that he finds the weight too heavy for him to carry off, and in his turn is carried below into deep water, and drowned.

Bream may be carried a long way well covered with snow, or by putting into their mouth bread dipped in alcohol.

The bream seems formerly to have been a favourite fish in England. In the reign of Henry the Sixth, 1454, we are told,---a pye of four of them, in the expenses of two men employed for three days in taking them, in baking them, in flour, in spices, and conveying the pye from Sutton, in Warwickshire, to the Earl of Warwick, at Mydlam, cost xvjs. ijd.

Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire.

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This fish inhabits deep waters with stony bottoms, and is compared to swine, in rooting its snout into the soft gravel for food, and in herding together, as Mr. Salter says. The barbel is also a game fish, and affords great sport to the angler, not unmixed with much anxiety from their long, and powerful struggling, after they are hooked; the best bait for barbel is soaked graves, using as ground-bait the same, but mixed with clay. In still holes, gentles, lightly enclosed in clay, also lob-worms enclosed in the same are good groundbaits. You can easily perceive a bite, which

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