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For a bit of "foxing" take your worm, fishing rod, and reel, your 

 finest line, a quill float, and a fine gut one yard long, and a 

 No . 7 hook. Let your bottom shot be one foot from the hook : 

 get some well scoured red worms, or cockspurs, with a few dew 

 worms, and you have everything ready to commence. If the 

 water is clear, and you are to fish in a brook, or small stream, 

 the most likely places are under bushes, by the side of piles, 

 under old trees overhanging the water, or anything that can 

 form a cover for Trout. Sit down very quietly ten or fifteen 

 yards above the place you have selected for fishing in ; if 

 it is shallow opposite where you sit, and then falls into a hole, 

 all the better. Gret the right depth by having a swim or two, 

 you cannot plumb it as you sit too far from where you are to 

 fish, make a guess at the depth at first, and if you are not 

 deep enough, put it deeper until your float goes under 

 the water, then alter it back a little so that your bait will 

 just miss the bottom; then cut two or three dew worms 

 into bits about the size of peas, and throw them in two or three 

 yards below you, if the stream is not very swift, and if the 

 water is five or six feet deep, they will go to the bottom of your 

 swim just where you want them. Put your bait on, and throw 

 it in, letting it go down the stream, and giving line from the 

 reel ; never mind the line falling on the water. When your 

 float gets a good distance from you, it is very fine and light and 

 will not sink, but lies upon the surface of the water ; give line 

 until your float is under the bushes, and the Trout will bite one 

 after another without fear, and you can soon fish out all that 

 are in the hole. I think I could have done it in half the time 

 I have taken to describe how to do it. If you are unsuccess- 

 ful there is something or other wrong. Probably you have not 

 watched the course of the stream before throwing in your 

 ground bait, and the current may have washed it under the 

 bank amongst the rubbish, where it would be of no use ; or you 

 may have thrown it too far out, and not sent your bait after it, 

 or it may have gone down the stream out of your reach. You 

 cannot pay too much attention to the way you ground bait. 



