38 



stream, let the shot be as near as twelve inches. The hook 

 should be a No. 7 or No. 8 round bend. You will require four 

 or five hundred dew worms and as many more cockspur or red 

 worms, or any sort of red worm will answer the purpose instead 

 of dew worms, perhaps better, as they would form the mixture 

 I want. Take the stock and put them separately into pots with 

 some clean moss. Those worms with which you are going to 

 fish should be scoured for three or four days so as to make them 

 brighter and tougher. 



THE AET OF BOTTOM FISHING FOE CAEP. 



As I promised I will now explain my style of fishing. We 

 will suppose the time is July, August, or September. I take my 

 rod and tackle with me and about seven hundred of the 

 thousand worms and start for a Carp pond or lake in time to 

 get there by eight or nine o'clock in the morning. If I am a 

 stranger to the water and have no person to show me ihe place 

 the fish frequent, I tackle out and take stock of the water, 

 endeavouring to find the deepest spot and clearest of weeds. If 

 I cannot fish from the bank I get a boat and go carefully over 

 the water until I find a suitable place. I then ascertain the 

 depth, either by plumbing or without, allowing an inch or two 

 for the bait to rest on the bottom : I then measure the depth 

 on my rod so that I can arrange my float for the right depth on 

 the following morning without disturbing the fish. I now take 

 all the worms from the moss and cut the dew worms into two 

 or three bits and mix the small worms with them : I then throw 

 the lot into the place, and thus baited I leave it, marking the 

 spot ; I then either return home or spend the day on some 

 other part of the pond, and if I think of doing the latter I take 

 one or two hundred worms extra with me ; but I take care not 

 to go near the place I have ground baited any more that day. I 

 return on the following morning after having allowed twenty 

 hours to elapse since baiting, and bring with me the remaining 

 three hundred worms. If I can fish in this place from the 



