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for legering, to worms for all kinds of Barbelling, and I 
prefer the swim to be baited beforehand (if possible 
twenty-four hours). Still I have had excellent sport with 
both kinds of baits, and both systems of using them, 
‘Ground baiting as you fish’ has, however, this advan- 
tage, that if Barbel do not come on to bite at one swim 
there is no disappointment felt in moving to another. 
A fisherman—especially a professional fisherman—hates 
quitting the hole into which he has thrown so much time 
and so many pints of worms. If it is intended to fish the 
same swim a second day, the ground should be re-baited 
on quitting. 
Themode of preparing and using greaves forground bait 
is described at p. 227. If worms are used for baiting a 
Barbel swim in anything but dead water or a very slow 
stream, I recommend their being enclosed in hollow clay 
balls of about the size of a man’s two fists. These, if 
the swim is to be fished at once, should be chin enough 
to break almost directly they touch the bottom, and the 
worms, of which a couple of handfuls are enough to begin 
with, should be broken into two pieces. If the swim 
is to be baited twenty-four hours or more beforehand, a 
quart of worms is not too much—two days, two quarts. 
In this case—say a twenty-four hours’ ground baiting— 
the worms should be used whole, and enclosed in clay 
balls, of which a few ought to be thin enough to break 
or wash open almost immediately they touch the ground, 
the majority being strong enough to resist the action of 
