g wanting in the other foregoing Sports, this
claiming it as its just due above the rest) but I long to tell you
_How_, _When_ and _Where_, you may taste its Delight.

It hath been the Method of this whole Treatise, to divide the several
distinct Heads of each Recreation into three Parts, to render the
Observations and Rules the more plain and easy, for the prosecuting the
Recreation we treat of.

1. _What_ it is we pursue.

2. _Where_ and _When_ to find that we would delight our selves in.

3. _With what_ proper _Mediums_ or Measures we may obtain the desired
Effects of our endeavours therein. And in this delightful Scene of
Pastime, we now treat of, Fishing, so full of Variety and Choice,
I shall observe the same Method.

First then, _What_ we pursue is Fish, distinguished according to their
sundry kinds by these following _Names_.

The _Barbel_, _Breame_, _Bleak_, _Bulhead_, or Millers-Thumb;
_Chevin_, _Char_, _Chub_, _Carp_; _Dace_, _Dare_; _Eel_; _Flounder_;
_Grayling_, _Gudgeon_, _Guiniad_; _Loach_; _Minnow_; _Pope_ or
_Pike_, _Pearch_; _Rud_, _Roach_; _Sticklebag_ or Bansticle,
_Salmon_, _Shad_, _Suant_; _Tench_, _Torcoth_, _Trout_, _Thwait_,
and _Umber_. All these Alphabetically thus named are the different
sorts of Fish, in taking which the Angler commonly exercises his
Art. We come next, _Where_ to find them.

I. To know the _Haunts_ and Resorts of Fish, in which they are to be
usually found, is the most Material thing the Angler ought to be
instructed in, lest he vainly prepare _how to take_ them, and
preposterously seek _where to find_ that he prepared for. To prevent
which you are first to understand, That as the Season of the Year is, so
_Fish_ change their places: In _Summer_, some keep near the Top, others
the bottom of the Waters. In _Winter_, all _Fish_ in general resort to
deep Waters. But more particularly,

The _Barbel_, _Roach_, _Dace_, and _Ruff_, covet most _Sandy, Gravelly
Ground_, the deepest part of the _River_, and the Shadows of _Trees_.

_Breame_, _Pike_, and _Chub_, delight in a _Clay_, and _Ouzie Ground_:
The _Bream_ chooseth the middle of the _River_, in a gentle not too
rapid Stream: The _Pike_ prefereth still Waters, full of _Fry_, and
absconding himself amongst _Bull-Rushes_, _Water-docks_, or under
_Bushes_, that under these shelters he may more securely surprize and
seize his Prey: The _Chub_ too chooses the same Ground, large Rivers and
Streams, and i