OBSERVATIONS ON PASTES. 21 



Cheese paste for Chub, and Greaves Paste, 8^c. for Barbel. 



I Paste made with cheese and bread is a very killing 

 bait^ particularly for Chub, if made in the following 

 manner : take some old Cheshire cheese, the more 

 damp, rotten, and rank, the better, and well work it, and 

 mix it with the crumb of new bread until it becomes 

 of a proper consistence to bait the hook with: if the 

 Angler will go to the expense and trouble of making 

 ground bait of a pound of old maggotty Cheshire 

 cheese and a new quartern loaf, and fish in still chub- 

 holes, he will have sport enough. To make paste for 

 Barbel, dip the crumb of a new penny-loaf into the 

 liquor that greaves have been boiled in, and knead it 

 till stiff and fit for use. This bait is a killing bait for 

 Barbel. — Note, when distressed for greaves, I have 

 melted, or, as it is termed, rendered down beef suet, 

 I and used the hard pieces or skin which do not dis- 

 solve, as a bait both for Barbel and Chub with suc- 

 cess, and also with similar pieces collected from mel- 

 ted pigs' Hare, and mutton. 



Observations on Pastes, also Salmoiis Paste and Spawn, 

 and how to make Patent Paste, prepare Wheat, <SfC. 



In making paste, it is absolutely necessary that 

 your hands should be very clean, and likewise the 

 bread and water, otherwise the paste wall be of a bad 

 colour and taste — in that case, you must not expect 

 success. A paste is made by mixing water in small 

 quantities with flour, and several times squeezing it 



