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Information on gudgeon fish for anglers and fishermen.
Gudgeon Is one of the most delicious fish for eating, although small in size. It bites freely from the latter end of spring until autumn, in gloomy warm days, from an hour after sunrise to within the same space of its setting ; and during the rest of the year, in the middle of the day, when it is warmest. In angling for gudgeon the tackle must be very fine, a single hair or fine gut line, a hook, No. 8 or 9, a short rod and line, and a small porcupine float. They will take the small red-worm greedily, and bloodworms the first is perhaps the best and a rake or the boat-hook should be kept frequently stirring the bottom. To the spot so stirred gudgeon assemble in shoals, expecting food from the discolouring of the water : and by now and then throwing in a handful of gravel mixed with dead gentils, they are also kept together, and sometimes great quantities are taken. They are apt to nibble at the bait ; the angler ought not, therefore, to strike at the first biting. Should any young angler desire a good day's fishing for gudgeon, and a pleasant walk into the bargain, he should seek out some sequestered gravelly stream, and providing himself with a rake, he may have sport till he is tired of it. He will find them scattered up and down every river in the shallows during the heat of summer, but in winter they get into deeper water, and are to be fished for there with your hook always touching the ground, if fished for with a float. Some persons, however, prefer fishing for them with a running line upon the ground without a cork, but this requires a gentle rod and a gentle hand.
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