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fs put-pcmt foremost Into the mouth of your bait, which 

 is then sewed up, and the little loop which is fastened to 

 the thick end of your weight, and by which it is secured 

 to your line, is whipped down very tight, just on the out- 

 side of the bait's mouth, so as to be concealed -, cut away 

 pne of the vent-fins, and one of the gill-fins, on different 

 skies 5 this will cause your bait to have an- uneven motion, 

 whereby it will bear a stronger resemblance to that of a 

 live fish, and be far more killing. 



When you rove with a worm, or rather with tivo or 

 three worms properly arranged on your hook, as I shall 

 now fully explain, take especial care that the point of 

 your hook be not only carefully concealed, but brought so 

 near up within the worm appropriated to that part, as to 

 be close to the end of its tail. 



By this means you will find, that the bait may be 

 thrown with more safety, than when a long pendent tail 

 is left beyond the point j which, in such cases, always 

 \vorks its way through, and shews so conspicuously as to 

 deter all fishes from approaching. By the mode directed, 

 they have no opportunity of dragging away the tail of that 

 worm ; for if they touch on it, when placed as above 

 shewn, they must infallibly be hooked. 



A large bait is the most tempting, but by far the 

 least certain ; whence the angler is subjected to per- 

 petual disappointment, and, in the end, will certainly 

 kill fewest fishes. I think three short, thick, high- 

 coloured worms, are the best for roving', letting the 

 longest be first threaded, for about three quarters of an 

 inch, then slipped up above the upper bristle 5 next 

 thread the second worm for about the same length, 

 and pass it above the lower bristle : both these conse- 

 quently 



