Gudgeons taken in Harper's Brook, near Brigstock, are eight inches long, and otherwise proportionable.

The compiler of the Sportsman's Cyclopædia, Mr. Johnson, had some in a pond, which, on an average, were so large as to weigh six to the lb.

Mr. Pallas observes that there are black gudgeons to be seen in the rivers of Russia, particularly in the Volga and Jaiq, and other rivers connected with these.

Roach are fishes well known to most anglers; they require as much attention in the taking as the larger fish; roach-fishing, however, affords such amusement, that many angle for this fish only. In pursuing this sport the finer your tackle is, the more you are likely to succeed. When barbel are feeding in the same place, it often happens that these lusty gentry clear away lines, baits, and all, from the fisher; they are supposed to be

attracted by the ground-bait. Roach are to be found in clear, swift streams; they principally delight in deep holes, particularly where there are gravelly bottoms. Here, more especially, they are taken of a large size, at the end of a swim; sometimes, also, with graves, and worms,-paste made of bean-meal, rabbit's-flic, bees-wax, and sheep suet beat well in a mortar, with a little clarified honey tempered before the fire, and stained with cherries, if in season, or vermillion, or with globules of paste made with new bread and sugar; perhaps the latter may be as tempting a bait as the former, and easier made. The ground-bait should be graves, bread and bran mixed with clay. They occasionally afford sport with a common housefly; very fine roach are to be caught in Dagenham Breach. Editor.

Mr. Pennant asserts that a roach was caught, and brought to market, which weighed five pounds.

Walton says, the largest roach are found in the Thames, generally weighing about two pounds.

Angling in Hampton Deep, upwards of one hundred dozen of fine roach were caught in one day in the above Deep,-several weighed one pound and a half each. The oldest fisherman does

not recollect any thing like it before in angling. It was one of the finest day's sport ever known, and the fishermen attending could not take the fish off the hooks quick enough.

Morning Post, Oct. 22, 1821.

Near Withyam, in the river Medway, in the month of July, great quantities of very fine roach may be caught, and there are also plenty of dace which are shy of biting, but may be taken with a fly. Some very fine roach and dace are taken near Arlington Castle in this river,—and every accommodation may be had at a public-house near thereto, named the Gibraltar. This part of the river is also very fine and picturesque.

The ancient way of fishing for roach at London Bridge. Take a strong cord, at the end of which, fasten a three pound weight,-one foot above the lead fasten also a small cord of twelve feet long; add, at convenient distances, half a dozen links of hair, with roach-hooks well baited, -then holding the cord in the hand the biting of the fish may be easily felt; this might be practised at other places, where the water is deep and the current very brisk.

Gentleman's Recreation.

The best method to cook roach.-(The same will apply to other fresh water fish.) Without scaling, throw some flour over them, and lay them on a gridiron over a slow fire; as they grow brown, a cut is to be made on the back, not more than skin-deep, from the head to the tail, and the fish is then replaced on the fire; when sufficiently broiled, the skin and scales will peel off, and leave the fish clean and firm; the belly is then to be opened, and the inside will come away cleanly; scraping and water washes away all the flavour and firmness of the fish. Daniel.

The dace is a gregarious and very lively fish, and, during summer, is fond of playing near the surface of the water; it is generally found in deep and gentle streams, near the piles of bridges. Roach and dace are very similar in their haunts and habits. The dace is, however, a narrower fish, and, it is said that, if the scales on the back be rough to the touch, they are out of season; if they, on the contrary, be flat and smooth, the re

verse.

Dace are generally found together in the deepest parts of rivers, with gravelly and sandy bottoms; if fished for with flies, they should be a little under water. Bainbridge's Fly Fisher.

Dr. Bloch informs us that dace has been taken eighteen inches in length. In France they are sometimes found a foot long, and when the marshes on the Oder were dried up, the quantity left, of roach, was so great, that the neighbouring villages fed their hogs with them.

The chub, though not much esteemed as food, yet affords the young angler excellent sport, as it may be taken with a variety of baits. Several methods are employed for their capture, which may be practised with great success, always bearing in mind that this fish is very shy. You may return to the same holes where you began, and obtain sport; when once hooked, being leathermouthed, you are sure of your fish. The angler