124 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN CANAL ANGLING. 



will follow in the shape of a wedge, and will not long 

 be kept from appearing on the surface in the weediest 

 places : a hole is burnt through one corner of the cork, 

 by which with a cord it may be made stationary to the 

 side of any water ; and which method is sometimes 

 preferred where a boat cannot be readily commanded. 

 No species of fishing does more execution than this : 

 in windy weather, at all seasons of the year, and both 

 day and night, the trimmer presents itself as the pike's 

 most deadly foe. 



Trimmer baited. 



Live Bait Fishing for Pike. 



"You cannot be supposed," says Titus in Black- 

 wood, " to be in the middle of all the brightest and 

 fairest of the creation, and yet be contented to go 

 spooning on, dipping in and out, groping the bottom 

 of the river without an eye for a whole day together, 



