The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 518
a roach hook (it is marvellous what largegaping-mouthed perch may be caught with a small hook pro-perly handled!) one or more of these shrimps are tenderly-fastened on the point, and then the fun commences. The art here is to imitate as closely as possible the move-ments of the shrimps we have… … THE PERCH. a sluggish, dull, heavy movement when watched. Pebbly,gravelly, sandy bottoms are his delight, or even a marly bed,provided it be hard—which are almost as much so as a stonepavement in some of the Norfolk rivers and broads—are essentialto the increase of perch both in numbers and size,…
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