56 BOTTOM-FISHING. 



hook, baited with red worms or gentles, which 

 must drag the ground. Ground-bait well, and 

 fish early in the morning and late in the even- 

 ing; strike immediately you observe a bite. 

 Bream are so plentiful in some waters that 

 upwards of one hundred pounds weight have 

 been taken in a day's angling. When you 

 have hooked a Bream, you would imagine (how- 

 ever small the fish) you had a heavy one, as 

 it is usual for them the moment they are hooked 

 to lay on their sides, and as they are an uncom- 

 monly deep fish from back to belly this causes 

 no inconsiderable resistance ; the best way, 

 therefore, as soon as they are hooked is to give 

 line, in which case you pull them through the 

 water without an effort. 



