LIVE-BAIT FISHING. 24i 



way of fishing for Jack or Pike 3 yet, at a certain sea- 

 son of the year, the Angler will find it more profitable 

 to use a live-bait than a dead ; but, to take the whole 

 season for Jack and Pike-fishing, I firmly believe, he 

 who confines himself to trolling with the gorge v/ill 

 kill twice the number or weight of Jack and Pike, thiiii 

 he who, for the whole season, fishes only with a live- 

 bait.^ 



Live-halt Fishing. 



Fishing for Jack with a live-bait, and a cork float 

 on the line, is certainly an enticing way; but! do not 

 consider it so successful as trolling with the gorge- 

 hook ; neither have I ever killed such heavy Fish by 

 this method of live-bait fishing as with the gorge-bait; 

 yet I know, from practice, that more Jack and Pike 

 may be killed by angling for them with a live -bait aad 

 a floated line, than any other way, except trolling with 

 the gorge-hook 3 and the little labour or exertion re- 

 quired to take Jack and Pike by this mode of fishing, 

 is, doubtless, the cause of many preferring it, as it al- 

 lows them frequent opportunities of resting when they 



* An instance, in corroboration of this opinion, occurred to two 

 friends of mine in the mouth of November, 1822, who were Jack- 

 fishing with live and dead-baits, in the River Lea, near Cheshunt. 

 In the afternoon, the Fish were strong on the feed, during which 

 lime they bagged near sixty pounds' weight of Jack and Pike, the 

 whole of which they killed with dead-baits, and the gorge-hook ; 

 but not a Fish with the livc-oait, although they had two lines 

 baited, and in the water all day. 



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