Sea angling has nothing particular in it, but that small parts offish, clams or crabs, are mostly used in it for bait. The same fish may he caught at the heads of piers and the mouths of rivers, and bythe same bait as at sea, therefore fishing in such places is classed with sea angling.
Lastly, trimmer angling is a species of float tingling. The float consists of a round piece of cork, six inches in diameter, with a groove cut at itsedge, in which the line is coiled, except so much next the hook as to allow it to hang in mid-water, and so much at the other end as will reach to the bank. When a fish takes the bait, and runs with it, the line unwinds off the trim mer without giving any check ; but it will be prudent to give a slight jerk, to secure the fish when you come to take up the line. This method is very successful in canals, large ponds, or other still water.
Before concluding this article it will be proper to notice, that the weather has inuch influence on fish. When the wind is in some points few fish will bite ; the niost unfavourable is the eastern quarter. A warm lowering day, with flying show ers, and a slight ripple on the water, is the mostfavourable. Water slightly disturbed
prevents fish from seeing the tackle, and in It they take the bait most readily. Hence, whatever tends to disturb it so as to hide the line, without totally obscuring the bait, is of advantage. In waters aflect ed by the tide, tile flood is the best time for angling ; but the ebb should not be neglected. Whirlpools, eddies, mill-tails, sides of bridges, and beneath their arches, are places where fish more readily bite, chicfly for the above reason ; and in gene ral a certain degree of darkness in the wa ter, whether occasioned by the shade of buildings, rocks, or Other bodies, or caus ed by the agitation of its surface, or by muddy streams flowing into it, is fay oura ble to angling.
The proper season for fishing is in ge neral from the beb6nning of spring to the end of autumn; hut this depends much on the nature of the fish angled for : some may be caught at all times ; others, as those of passage, are only to be met with at particular seasom ; and others, though always confined to one piece of water, am nearly- torpid during the winter, and are fintrul only in deep places.—See Tay. lor's Angling.