HOW TO PISH AN EDDY. 



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up* worms along the swim. Our bread-and-bran mixture is of 

 little or no use when we fish with the tail of a lob. The one 

 ground-bait now is worms, which have to be thrown in loose and 

 with much judgment, for it is no easy matter to place them so that 

 they. sink to the bottom close to the hook-bait. When ground- 

 baiting with worms, we have to keep in mind the depth of the 

 water and the speed of the stream. The swifter and deeper 

 the stream, the higher above the swim must the worms be 

 thrown. No two eddies are exactly alike, but the sketch of 

 a small one which is given in Fig. 27 will, I hope, convey some 

 idea of the best way to throw in the ground-bait in such spots. 

 To fish with float tackle, the angler should stand at C, drop 



D 



Fig. 27. An Eddy, 



his tackle a little above A, and let his float work along the 

 dotted line to B, and round by the bank D to A again. The 

 worms he had best cast in at B ; they will then be swept round 

 by the current to A, which is the most likely place to find the 

 fish. These remarks apply to small eddies, where the distance 

 from A to B is only a few yards. In very large eddies, formed 

 by sharp bends in the river, and where the distance from A 

 to B is great, say from 20yds. upwards, the angler can only 

 fish a short distance along the dotted line A B ; and even if 

 they could be thrown so far, it will be no use to put in the 

 worms at B. The best plan then is to put the worms close 

 to the bank, opposite the point C, and if that does not appear 



* Nottingham anglers put half a dozen worms in a cocoanut shell, and then 

 snip them into small pieces with a pair of scissors. 



