How to Get Them 



fish, drawing them to the bait much sooner, and 

 enticing them to take it with greater avidity. 

 Blood and sand worms are quite long enough to 

 allow at least an inch of each end to hang down 

 and wriggle. 



There is one disadvantage in hooking them by 

 the skin because smaller kinds than those fished 

 for are apt more easily to tear the bait 

 Th^m "^ off and so get away with it; but I find 

 that this happens less often than might 

 be supposed, for the larger fish drive small ones 

 away when they see a kicking worm. 



AYhen no other bait is available, the large night 

 walker is very effective in running water just 

 before dark, both for bass and pickerel. It should 

 be hooked by the skin and allowed free play, 

 wriggling as it runs with the water, behind rocks 

 and stumps. It is also just as deadly with the 

 salmon, but for the latter a few shot put on the 

 leader to keep it below the surface wdll be need- 

 ful. For big trout, lying low in deep 

 Walkers pools, more particularly the brown 

 trout, the worm should be sunk to the 

 bottom; it is sure to be taken quick, if the worm is 

 actively alive. Of course, suckers, eels, and other 

 vermin are liable to take it, if left in one position 

 for any length of time. To prevent such annoy- 

 ance, keep it moving, a yard or so every few sec- 

 onds, not so violently as to scare the fish. 



In mountain brooks, where fish are rarely over 

 ten inches long, the smallest hook and the small- 

 est worms should only be put in use, and only one 

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