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required to make a given quantity of tenacious 

 paste. This composition will suit rapid waters. 



Barbel paste, of a very tempting kind, may be 

 made by soaking bread in the liquor from which 

 greaves have been taken after macerating therein. 

 The introduction of wool into the mass will be 

 found useful, to prevent the current washing the 

 paste away. By putting a small morsel of white 

 greaves on the point of the hook, you will prevent 

 its exposure whilst angling with this paste. 



Salmon roe preserved, and salmon-roe paste. 

 Both these baits have a terrible reputation, so 

 bad, indeed, as to give him who uses them a 

 poaching character, Salmon roe is a natural bait 

 for trout and other fish that frequent the waters 

 salmon breed in. Whilst the female salmon is 

 depositing the ova, many are swept away by the 

 current, and become the natural prey of other 

 fish, inhabitants of the stream. 



It is not easy to preserve salmon roe so as to 

 keep it in a proper state of hardness or softness. 

 Generally, with all our pains, it turns out too soft ; 

 rarely it becomes, except by gross blundering, 

 too hard. When too soft, it melts away when 

 used, and is then only fit to mix with bread crumb 

 to be made into paste. When too hard, some 

 good still remains, for it can be softened by im- 

 mersion in water, and, at any rate, will answer for 

 ground-bait. 



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