222 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
The other principle of Nottingham fishing is an 
excellent one, and the practice of it is rapidly spreading 
over all parts of the country, and for every description 
of river and pond bottom fishing. Its result is to enable 
the angler to fish “swims” at considerable distances— 
sometimes as much as twenty yards—away from him, 
and at the same time to add to the length of the swim 
itself, by allowing the bait to travel over a greater 
extent of ground than is possible under the ordinary 
method. This result is attained by the use of a largish 
float, and a running-line which combines strength with 
the greatest possible lightness and fineness, and there- 
fore, of course, runs through the rod-rings with the 
utmost facility. In pond fishing the Nottingham 
method gives the angler the advantages of being able 
to make much longer casts, and consequently to fish 
finer and further off. A proper Nottingham line of fifty 
yards long should not weigh more than one-fifth of an 
ounce, and is strong enough to land the largest fish 
which the angler is likely to meet with (see observations 
on lines, p. 28). In casting, the line should lie in loose 
coils on the ground ; and when a long cast is to be made 
it will be found convenient to draw the line in, not 
through the lowest ring, but through one or other of the 
rings next above it—an arrangement by which, owing 
to the diminution of friction, a light bait can be thrown 
to a greater distance. 
With the foregoing exceptions, the tackle, &c., already 
