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Cast the bait into the stream, and allow it 

 to trip gently on the bottom. The line must 

 be shotted according to the strength of the 

 current; if very rapid, more than twice as 

 many shot will be required as in a steady or 

 feeble stream. When a fish first bites, you 

 will feel a slight tug or twitch, but do not 

 strike immediately, wait a few moments for 

 one or more sharp twitches ; then strike 

 smartly, and instantly pay out your line. This 

 mode of bottom fishing for trout requires as 

 much skill and practice, and is almost equal 

 in every sense of the word to fly fishing. A 

 heavy fish generally leaps out of tbe water at 

 the moment of feeling the smart of the hook ; 

 and when it first feels the restraint of the line, 

 it flounces and plunges with desperate effort. 



When fishing for trout, be very guarded to 

 keep out of sight, or your efforts will be 

 fruitless. If you bait with the blue-headed 

 marl worm, or the lob-worm, one will be 

 sufficient to put on the hook : but if you use 

 marsh or other small worms, put two on the 

 hook at once. 



The proper mode of baiting the hook with 

 two ivorms, is as follows put the point of 



