240 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
Another method of fishing for Perch with Minnows, 
sometimes used also for Trout and Pike, is what used to 
be called by the old writers “roving.” It consists 
simply in substituting an ordinary gut-line, single hook, 
and float for the paternoster, and baiting with a live 
Minnow hooked through the upper lip. This method 
is, however, very inferior to the paternoster for either 
Perch or Pike; and for Trout is not to be named with 
either fly, worm, or spun Minnow fishing. 
Besides Minnows and small Gudgeon, the only live 
bait that Perch take freely, both in rivers, lakes, and 
ponds, is the worm—a brandling being much the best. 
It may be used either in the ordinary or “ Nottingham 
style,” in the mode already described in the preliminary 
chapter on “Bottom or Float-fishing.” The hook, 
single, should be from No. 6 to 8 or 9, according to the 
average size of the Perch in the waters fished. I cannot 
but think, however, that the two-hook tackle recom- 
mended for Trout, p. 110, may probably eventually 
supersede the single hook for all kinds of worm fishing, 
at any rate in running waters, and not impossibly in 
pond fishing also. At the same time, I have myself 
tested the tackle in this department of angling suff- 
ciently to put the above forward as more than an 
opinion—an opinion, however, in favour of which strong 
prima facie arguments exist, and which I should be very 
pleased to find confirmed by that of any other anglers, 
who may be inclined, for the sake of experiment, to 
