PART IV. 

 BOTTOM OR FLOAT FISHING. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 



General Observations. 



Old' and ^ne<vj (or ^ 'Nottingham') methods of hottom-fishing — Ordinary 



float-fishing — Rods, lines, hooks, floats, shot, reels, &c. 

 Nottingham fishing — specialities of, and tackle. 



" Bottom fishing," whatever the term may have ori- 

 ginally conveyed, does not now always mean fishing on 

 the bottom. Several branches of angling, such as pater- 

 nostering, which comply with this condition, are ex- 

 cluded ; and others, as for example float-fishing in mid- 

 water, which do not comply with it, are embraced. The 

 expression bottom-fishing in the angler's dictionary has 

 come to imply simply rod-fishing with a float ; and if we 

 were to exclude Pike, Trout, and Grayling from the 

 category, float-fishing and bottom-fishing might be said 

 to be synonymous. 



