FISHING Hook, a small instrument made of steel wire, of a proper form to catch and retain fish.
The fishing hook in general ought to be long in the shank, somewhat thick in the circumference, the point even and straight; let the bending be in the shank.
An Epitome of the whole art of FISHING, wherein is shown, (at one view), the harbours, seafans, and depths, for catching all sorts of fish usually angled for, also the various baits for each, so digested as to contain the essence of all the treatises ever written on the subject, exempt from the superfluities, which tend more to perplex than instruct.
| Names. | Where found. | Season. | Time to ang. | Depth from ground. | Proper Baits. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flies. No |
Pastes. No |
Worms. No |
Fish and Insects. No 8. |
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| Bream | Rough str. river or mid. pond | Apr. to Mich | Sunrise to 9 3 to sunset |
Touch Ground | - | 1 3 | 1 to 7 | - |
| Barbel | Gravel banks in currents under bridges |
Apr. to Aug. | Very early or late |
Ditto | - | 2 | 2 6 7 | - |
| Bleak | Sandy bottom deep rivers, ships sterns |
May to Oct. | All day | Six inches from bottom | 1 2 | 2 | 2 3 8 | - |
| Carp | Still deep mud bottom, pond or river |
May to Aug. | Sunrise to 9 3 to sunset |
Three inches from bottom Hot weather, mid water |
- | 1 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 7 | - |
| Chub or Chevin |
Ditto | May to Dec. | Ditto | Ditto | 1 to 5 | 2 | 1 2 4 5 | 7 8 |
| Dace | Sandy bottom, deep rivers, ship sterns |
May to Oct. | All day | Six to 12 inches from bottom | Ditto | 3 4 | 1 to 5 & 8 | - |
| Gudgeon | Gravel shoals | May to Oct. | Ditto | Near or on the ground | - | Ditto | 2 8 | - |
| Pike | Near clay banks | All the year | Ditto | Mid water | Wh. stro. and snap |
Line float Hook fixt |
On shore | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
| Perch | River in stream Pond deepest part |
May to Aug. | Sunrise to 10 2 to sunset |
Ditto | 2 | 1 | 3 5 7 8 | 1 6 |
| Pope | Deep holes in rivers | Aug. to May | Mid day | Six inches from bottom | 5 | - | All | - |
| Roach | Sandy bottom, deep rivers, ships sterns |
May to Oct. | All day | Ditto | 1 2 4 5 | 3 4 | Ditto | 8 |
| Salmon | Deep rivers | Mar. to Sept. | 8 to 9, 3 to 6 | Mid way to the bottom | All large | - | 1 5 6 7 | 1 |
| Smelts | Ships sterns and docks | Apr. to Oct. | All day | Mid way to the bottom Variable |
All small | - | 1 2 5 | Bits of smelts |
| Trout | Parting stream and eddies of stony bottom river |
Mar. to Mich. | Ditto | Cold weather, 6 inches to 9 Hot weather, top to mid wat. |
1 to 5 | - | 1 2 5 to 8 | 1 8 |
| Tench | Mud bottom river or pond | All the year | Sunrise to 9 3 to sunset |
Cold wea. 3 inches from bot. Hot weather, mid water |
- | 1 3 4 | 1 3 4 to 7 | - |
| Umber or Grayling |
Clay bottom, swift stream | All the year | All day | Cold weather, 6 to 9 inches Hot weather, top to mid wat. |
1 to 5 | - | All | 1 8 |
Fishing. For setting the hook on, use strong but small silk, laying the hair on the inside of your hook; for if it be on the outside, the silk will fret and cut it asunder.
There are several sizes of these fishing hooks, some big, some little: and of these, some have peculiar names; as, 1. Single hooks. 2. Double hooks; which have two bendings, one contrary to the other. 3. Snap-pers, or gorgers, which are the hooks to whip the artificial fly upon, or bait with the natural fly. 4. Springers, or spring hooks; a kind of double hooks, with a spring, which flies open upon being struck into any fish, and so keeps its mouth open.