CHEESE PASTE GROUND-BAITS. 211 



In baiting with salmon roe, the hook should be 

 covered with it, and as many grains put in the 

 bend as possible. The most perfect grains should 

 cover the barb and point of the hook. Some 

 persons with a fine needle thread necklace-fashion 

 some fine pink silk thread with the grains of roe, 

 and then wind a sufficient number neatly about 

 the bend and shank of the hook, shielding the 

 point with one of them. 



When your preserved salmon roe is too soft to 

 thread it in single grains on the hook, mix a little 

 adhesive bread paste with it, and use it as salmon- 

 roe paste. 



Cheese paste is made with either new or old 

 cheese, by mixing stale bread with new cheese, 

 and new bread with old cheese. The substances 

 must be kneaded together to adhesiveness. New 

 bread and old cheese for chub ; the other mixture 

 for roach. They are both good autumn and winter 

 baits. 



When pastes are used, the hooks should be 

 short in the shanks, of fine wire and sneck-bent. 

 They should be whipped on with silk the colour 

 of the paste, very delicately waxed with trans- 

 parent white wax. 



Ground-baits. These are essential to extensive 



success, and should be used abundantly, thrown in 



for days and nights previously at the spots wherein 



you intend to angle. They should be thrown in, 



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