PART “IV. 
BOLTON OR (FLOAT. PISHING.. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
‘Old’ and ‘new’ (or ‘ Nottingham’) methods of bottom-fishing—Ordinary 
_ float-fishing—R ods, lines, hooks, floats, shot, reels, &c. 
Nottingham fishing—specialities of, and tackle. 
“ BOTTOM FISHING,” whatever the term may have ori- 
ginally conveyed, does not now always mean fishing on 
the bottom. Several branches of angling, such as pater- 
nostering, which comply with this condition, are ex- 
cluded ; and others, as for example float-fishing in mid- 
water, which do not comply with it, are embraced. The 
expression bottom-fishing in the angler’s dictionary has 
come to imply simply rod-fishing with a float ; and if we 
were to exclude Pike, Trout, and Grayling from the 
category, float-fishing and bottom- fishing ment be said 
to be synonymous. 
