PATERNOSTER ING. 



'33 



when the bullet finds the bottom gather up the 

 slack until you have a tight line. On getting a 

 run pay out a little line, and wait four or five 

 seconds before tightening up again and striking 

 the fish ; but if after a few minutes no tug 

 occurs, lift the point of your rod and draw the 

 bait to another place, where let it remain a short 

 time to work about the water. By pursuing this 

 method you can search every part of the bed of 

 the river within casting distance, and should 

 any pike near, get a kick or knock on its head 

 by the bait, it is pretty sure to be immediately 

 seized, for pike are certain to be hungry, and on 



LEGER-TACKLE BAITED. 



the look-out for the food which is difficult to find 

 in floods and thick water. 



" Red Spinner," the author of Waterside Sketches, 

 gives a good description in that delightful work, 

 of some capital sport I had at Sonning, February, 

 1875, which will bear repeating, as it shows that 

 under perplexing circumstances, perseverance some- 

 times commands success. 



"During the high floods that occurred in the 

 Thames Valley, and continued for several weeks 



