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let one of these be filled with fresh moss, and on the top of 

 it place the stale moss containing the 

 worms, live and dead. The live worms 

 will burrow down into the fresh moss, 



while the dead ones will 

 be left at the top and will 

 be removed with the old 

 moss. 



Eels. The white belly- 

 skin of a conger is suit- 

 able for fish-skin flies and 

 similar whiffing baits. For 

 pollack there are few more 

 killing baits than a small 

 eel about four or five 

 inches in length. It may 

 be either the freshwater eel 

 or a little conger. Where 

 a streamlet flows down 

 through a valley out on to 

 the seashore and loses it- 

 self in rocky pools, there 

 small eels are almost cer- 

 tain to be found. I re- 

 member sending on an old 

 Scotch fisherman to just 

 such a place to search for 

 bait. An hour later we joined him, 

 and, seeing no can, pot, or pan of any 

 kind in which the bait could be put, 



LOBWORM 



USED AS 



A BAIT 



FOR RAIL 



ING OR 



WHIFFING 



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SINGLE HOOK 



