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from the hook. Put your float as low on the tackle as you can 

 and throw into deep water. Notice particularly how much of 

 your float stands above the water, then go to the place you in- 

 tend to fish. If it be a pond or still water proceed thus : " It 

 looks deep," you will say. Well, fix your float on chance at 

 four or five feet and throw in ; if it sinks to the place it was 

 when shallow (that is, all but a quarter of an inch) you may 

 conclude the water is deeper. Alter then your float until such 

 time as it rises which it will do as soon as your shot touches 

 the bottom and then lower the float a little bit until it stands 

 the way it did when shallow. You can find the depth in a 

 stream in the same way, only when your shot or bait touches 

 the bottom in a stream your float will sink. When it does so 

 alter it back until it rides the same as it did when shallow. 

 This is a matter I would particularly call your attention to, 

 because it is no use fishing unless you have the proper depth. 

 Never fish on the bottom, but let your bait just miss it. Before 

 you commence fishing you should throw in a few worms cut 

 very small. If a still water throw them straight to the place 

 you intend to fish : if in a stream throw them above where you 

 intend to fish, calculating how far they will swim before they 

 get to the bottom, for wherever your worms go your bait must 

 follow, or you will catch no fish. This is one of the greatest 

 points in Angling, and a. point that has puzzled hundreds of 

 Anglers, and when they get home they say they have had very 

 bad sport to-day that the fish would not bite, or the wind was 

 in the east, or the sun was too bright, or the water too thick, 

 or the wind blowing in their faces, or the weather too cold, and 

 such other excuses as Anglers generally make when they have 

 had no sport. But let me tell my good friends that they have 

 not been Angling at all. They put their rod together and put 

 on a line, and bait their hooks and fling it into the water, and 

 they have thrown in some sort of ground-bait, but they never 

 dream where it has gone to. Well, there they are, depending 

 on their patience and good luck, but thinking it strange that 

 the fish won't bite. Stupid people ! Their tackle is twice as 







