The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-14 00:00:00

Ale is; yet she ii at that liroe of beoltiag leas kipper and
forlorn. as witittry, and as had ,s eat.
Aod yet yns are to observe, that as there is no desrfal
rifle without an exception. an deere are some few rivers is
this nation that have Trouts and Salmons is season in
winter, as Otis re►tal■ there he is the river Wile is Mogi-
inosili.hirri, cheer they he in season, as ('aides observes,
Irma Septemb►r till April. Bat, .y sehulsr, lb, observe.
lion of this and many other things I must its rummers omit,
because they sill prove too I.rre for our 11S,101, comps. of
time, and therefore I shall ni xi fall upon my Jtrectioss bow
to Ask for ibis Salmon.

And, for that : first you shall °diem., that usually be
Mays ant long is a place, as Trouts will, hut, as I said, covets
still to go morel, the spring-head (6); ■nd 11134 he does Nut,
as the Tront and many other Ash, lie ors, the weirs...Me or
bank, or roots of trees, but swim■ in the deep nod broad
party of the water, •ud usually i■ the middle, and near the
ground, and that th►►e 'me are to fish fur him, sod that it is
to be caught, as the Trusts is, with a worm, • minnow (which
some call a penk), or with a Ay.
And you are to observe, that ►e is very seldom observed
to bite at • minnow, yet sometimes he will, and sot usually
■t • Ay, but suture usually at • worm, and then most usually
al • Moor garden worm, which should be well scoured, that
is to say, kept
with Arm ; and if you double your time of eight into swims,
twenty, or more days, is is still the better; for the worms
will still be el tougher, sod more lively, and continue
so longer spin your hook. And they may be kept Imager
by keeping them cool, sad in fresh moos, sod some 'drum So
put camphor into it (7).
Note alma, that many used to Ash for • Salmon with •
ring of wire on the top of their rod, through which the lino
m■y run to as great • length as is iteedful, when he is
booked. And to that cud some use • wheel shoot the 1111i11.
rile of their rod, or near their hand, which is to be observed
better by seeing oue of them than by a large demonstration
of words.

And now I shall tell yon that which maybe called a secret.
1 hare been a-fishing soh old (Hirer Henley, now with God,
a noted 'Wier both for Trout and Salmon; and bare observed
that he would usually lake three our four worms out of his
beg, and put them into a little box in his pocket, where be
would usually let them continue half au hour or more before
be would bait his book with them. I have asked him his
reason, and he has replied, " be did but pick the best out to
be in readiness spinal be ►sited his kook the next tinier
but he has been observed, both by others en I myself, to
cut► more fish than I, or any other body that has ever gone
a•fi.biug with him could do, sad especially Salmons. And I
have been told lately, by one of his moat intimate and secret
friend■, that the box iu Abieit he put those worms was
anointed with s drop, or two or three, of the oil of ivy-ber-
ries, made by expression or infusion; and told, that by the
worms remaining in that box an hour, or a like time, they
had incorporated a kind of smell that was irresistibly attrac-
tive, enough to force any fish within the smell of thews to
bite. This I heard not long liner from a friend, ►ut have
not tried it; yet I rant it probable, sad refer my reader to
Sir Francis Bacon's Natural History, where be proves
fishes may hese, sad &obi leas can more probably smell: :sod
I am certain Geiser says the Otter can smell in the water,
and I know not bat that fish may do so too. 'Tis left for a
lover of angling, or say that &aim to improve that art, to
fry this conclusion.