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Information for fishermen on the dace, a freshwater fish.
Dace Fish
Dace are gregarious are great breeders very lively and during summer fond of playing near the surface. Their haunts are deep water, near the piles of bridges, where the stream is gentle, and has a sandy or clayey bottom. They like deep holes that are shaded by water-lily leaves, and under the foam caused by an eddy ; in the warm months they are to be found in shoals on the shallows near to streams. The baits for dace are the red worms, brandling, cowdung, and earth bob, and, indeed, any worm bred on trees and bushes, and almost every kind of fly and caterpillar not too large. In angling for dace, with worms, maggots, &c., the tackle cannot be too fine, the float small, the hook No. 9, the shot a foot from it ; by baiting the place with a few maggots before fishing, the diversion will be increased. If you angle in an eddy between two mill-streams, and the water is only two or three feet deep, there will be a greater chance of success than where it is deeper ; take a cork float, bait with three large gentils, and strike at the first nibble. If there are large dace in the mill pool they will resort to this eddy. In bottom fishing for dace, let the ground bait be bread soaked an hour in water ; put an equal quantity of bran, knead it to a tough consistence, and make it into balls, with a small pebble in the middle, to sink them ; throw these balls a little up the stream from the spot where it is proposed to angle, that the current may not drive them beyond the reach of the line. Fish for dace within three inches of the ground, especially where the ant fly is the bait under water. We have more than once caught dace upwards of a pound in weight upon night-lines baited with minnow for eels. In fishing take advantage if you can of a still, warm, gloomy day, or go in a summer's evening to the smooth part of the end of a mill-stream from seven to eight, and as long as the light continues the dace will yield diversion.
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