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under the wings, with their heads standing differ- 

 ent ways : pass your hook through them under the 

 wings, about the middle of the insect's body, and 

 take care that your fingers are always dry when 

 baiting, or you soon kill or spoil your bait.' The 

 following bait I confidently recommend : Make 

 a pair of wings of the feather of a landrail, and on 

 the bend of the hook put one or two caddies. 

 The head of one caddis should go up close to the 

 wings. Angle with a stiff rod about fourteen feet 

 long, a foot-line eight feet, and a hook No. 5 or 

 6. Let the bait float down the stream just below 

 the surface, then gently draw it up again, a little 

 irregularly, 'by shaking the rod, and if there be a 

 fish in the place it will be sure to take it. If you 

 use two caddies with the wings, put the hook in 

 at the head and out at the neck of the first, and 

 quite through the other from head to tail. Two 

 brandlings, or small red worms, may be fished 

 with in the same way. 



Many are the precautions recommended to be 

 adopted in dibbing. The chief are to keep beyond 

 the sight of fish, and when you have hooked one 

 to get it out of the water expeditiously with as 

 little disturbance as possible. As dibbing is not 

 always to be practised behind the friendly shade 

 of bushes or trees, the angler is often forced to 

 content himself with the resources of the bank he 

 stands on, to which he should creep on his hands 



