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in the right form ; in fact, I was fishing as well as I could wish. 

 A whole hour passed away without a single nibble. In vain I 

 perplexed my brain to discover from what my want of success 

 arose, and I was actually beginning to become disgusted with 

 myself and everything around me, when as I was throwing from 

 the reel, I happened by accident to throw five or six yards higher 

 up the stream than I had intended, and which I had not done 

 before. The float did not cock, and I fancied the tackle lodged 

 on something coming down the stream. I was proceeding to 

 draw it out to throw in again, when, behold ! I found a Chub 

 of a pound weight had caught hold of the bait, and kept it from 

 sinking. I got him out, and put another bait on, and went up 

 five or six yards higher, and threw again. The float lay flat on 

 the water, just the same as before. I struck, and caught a 

 Roach, half-a-pound. I threw again, and caught a large Dace 

 in the same way. I began now to see what was the matter. I 

 said to myself, " You rascals, I will give you such a quilting as you 

 have never had before." I took off my Barbel float and tackle, and 

 put on a quill float and Dace tackle, with a No. 8 hook, baited 

 with the tail of a female lob. The water was 1 2 feet deep, but 

 I arranged the float so as to fish about the middle. Well, most 

 astonishingly, I had a bite, either of Roach, Dace, Chub, or 

 Perch, every swim, without having to throw in any more worms. 

 In about an hour I had silenced all their guns, and caused those 

 that were left to retreat. When I found the little fellows were all 

 gone, I went to my worm bag, took out about a hundred, cut 

 them up, and threw them in the same place that I had done 

 before. I then again put on my Barbel float and tackle, and 

 fished in the same style as I did when I first commenced. The 

 first two swims I had not a touch, the next three I hooked a 

 Barbel each swim ; it then appeared to be all over, for I could 

 not get a bite, but as a last resource I cut about two hundred 

 worms in bits, thinking to myself that if they did not take effect 

 I would leave, and seek another place. But they did take 

 effect, for the fish came on to bite in good earnest, and I believe 

 within the last hour that I fished I caught nineteen good Barbel, 



