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as an "all round" worm tackle, is better than 

 any other.* It is made of three small hooks, tied 

 on the gut at interval of half an inch, and facing 

 opposite ways. To bait this, each hook is passed 

 right through the worm laterally, so that it hangs 

 in loops between them. The worm hangs in such, 

 a tempting way that the trout takes no notice 

 whatever of the hooks, and with this tackle he 

 is hooked at once, and there is no delusive 

 nibbling. In all streams we consider this to be 

 the besb worm tackle, except when the water is 

 so supernaturally bright and clear as it is to-day. 

 Now, our single hook of excessive fineness is the 

 best. Our worms are small, and of a clear red, 

 betokening that they have been well scoured in 

 moss. 



Now we enter the Linn, and ere we have gone a 



* In a review on the Academy, Mr. T. T. Stoddart took 

 objection to this recommendation of the Stewart tackle, 

 and says : " I have been a practical angler for more than 

 half a century, and lived on the most eligible portion of 

 Tweedside for forty years. During that long period, 

 worm-fishing in clear water, in the months of June and 

 July, has been my study and delight ; and the conclusion 

 I have arrived at is in favour out and out of the single- 

 hook tackle. By it, in clear, still stretches of a river, 

 or from a lake, on the brightest of days, large trout may 

 be taken ; whereas the three-hooked tackle, recommended 

 by the late Mr. Stewart, will be found quite inefficacious. 

 In streamy water, also, under corresponding circumstances, 

 the single hook, with the shank bent back a little, I have 

 found to be more trustworthy than the other." 



