Excerpt from Roach, Rudd Bream Fishing in Many Waters: Being a Practical Treatise on Angling With Float and Ledger in Still Water and Stream, Including a Few Remarks on Surface Fishing for Roach, Rudd, and Dace Roach fishing has been a favourite pastime of mine now for more than forty years, and during that time I have fished in more than a dozen different counties, and in nearly a score of different rivers, and have had also the great privilege of fishing in the company of experts in all those varied districts, and gained most valuable experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.