WORM-FISHING. II3 



should never be kept on the hooks. This is perhaps the 

 most important point of all. The name of the worm in- 

 dicates where it can best be found. Before use it should, 

 if possible, be placed in a damp moss for two or three 

 days. 



After being cast up stream as far as the length of rod 

 and line will conveniently admit, the bait should be 

 allowed to be carried back with the current nearly to the 

 angler's feet. If in its passage the line comes to a 

 suspicious stop, the nature of which is not obvious, or if 

 a fish evidently takes the bait, the line should be allowed 

 to remain for three or four seconds motionless, when 

 the angler should strike, — not very hard, as the hooks 

 are small, — but still firmly and decidedly. 



In worm-fishing for Trout, perhaps more than in any 

 other kind of fishing, the short-handled pocket net de- 

 scribed at page 64 will be found an invaluable auxiliary. 



