212 HOW TO GROUND-BAIT. 



at all events, the night before you begin to fish. 

 They should be of the same sort as the baits you 

 are about to use, but of inferior quality. The 

 more carefully and the longer you ground-bait 

 any locality, the greater number of fish you will 

 find there. Naturally, they will congregate to 

 those places at which they find most food. 



In rapid streams your ground-bait should be 

 heavy and adhesive, mixed with clay, and having 

 sometimes a large round pebble within the mass. 

 In rivers that are constantly ground-baited the 

 very noise or splash, caused in the water by the 

 fall of the ground-bait cast^ in, attracts fish to 

 the spot. They are used to it, and know the con- 

 sequence. Large worms mixed with balls of clay 

 attract barbel, chub, perch, and trout. Bran, 

 pollard, meal, malt, grains, attract roach, dace, 

 chub, and bream. Greaves and pieces of cheese 

 attract barbel and chub. Eaking with an iron 

 rake the bottom of the stream, or mudding it by 

 going into the water and stirring up the bottom 

 with your strong-soled shoes or boots, will bring 

 fish into the wake of the discoloured water, and 

 they will eagerly take worms dropped in before 

 them. The best ground-baits are the following. 

 I have mentioned the meal ground-bait already, 

 and it is the best of all when angling with bread 

 pastes. 



Bran and clay ground-bait is very simple, and 



