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the stream, so as to draw the fish nearer to him. "When the 

 water is very clear I would not advise you to attempt to get 

 the fish too close to you, but keep them at a distance, say ten or 

 fifteen yards ; they will bite better and longer by so doing. It 

 will be impossible for me to explain how or where to throw your 

 worms or any ground bait in, as the water being of a different 

 depth in diiferent places, the ground bait requires to be thrown 

 differently in ; but I will describe a good plan. "When you 

 have found a Barbel swim get the depth by allowing the bait on 

 your tackle just to miss the bottom ; select that part of the swim 

 which has the levellest bottom free from large stones, weeds, 

 or anything foul. If you are going to fish with dew worms, cut 

 about twenty, each worm into four bits, but not more, as if the 

 pieces are too small they will be eaten up by little fish before 

 they get to the bottom, and of course will have no effect. Throw 

 them in, making a calculation for the stream and the depth of 

 water, and watch the course of the stream, for depend upon it 

 wherever your worms go there will the fish go also, and unless 

 your bait follows in the same direction you will get no sport. 

 If the first few worms do not take effect in ten minutes, throw 

 in as many more in another direction, either higher up, lower 

 down, further or closer in, as you may conceive to be most 

 advisable. Continue this plan for an hour, trying every dodge 

 you can think of, but if you find that you are still unsuccessful, 

 as a last resource, if you have plenty of worms, cut up a hundred 

 or two and pitch them in. If, after fishing for twenty minutes 

 longer, this has no effect, abandon the place and seek another. 

 The reason I do not recommend throwing much ground bait in 

 at first is, that you may have selected a swim in which there 

 might only be five or six Barbel, and if you have cut up and 

 thrown in two hundred dew worms, the moment they get to the 

 bottom the fish will devour them up as a lot of chickens would 

 a handful of barley thrown to them, and the consequence is that 

 you cannot get a bite, because you have given the fish more 

 worms than they can eat, and being satiated they will not look 

 at your well-scoured bait. If you could see the bottom and the 



