40 WORM-FISHING. 



he drives the fish up stream when walking along 

 the edge, and alarms those lying above. 



The attention of the angler ought in the first 

 place to be directed to the shallow water next 

 him, then with consecutive casts at varying 

 angles let him methodically fish up the whole 

 stream. 



The greater proportion of casts are made up- 

 wards and across, but the channel side usually 

 requires to be fished straight up stream. Each 

 cast is made a little further up, and is spent 

 where the preceding one began, the object of this 

 being to keep the bait always moving in unfished 

 water. The worm is allowed to come downward 

 with the current in a natural way, and at the 

 same time the rod top is slowly raised. 



All sections of the stream, viz. the opposite 

 bank, centre current, and shallow water, are in 

 this way searched as the angler works his way 

 upwards. 



He should fish with special care all runs be- 

 neath the bank, the neighbourhood of large stones, 

 tree roots, and places where the shallows merge 

 into deeper water ; while eddies and corners, of 

 which there is great variety, must never be care- 

 lessly passed over, however shallow. 



No time should be wasted when fishing small 

 waters : but a large river is different ; in it one 

 stretch of good water for worm takes a long time 



