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three or four yards above you, and six or seven out in the water, 

 observing the course the stream takes ; then cast your plumb a 

 little across and down the stream to the very spot you think the 

 ground bait has rested. If you do not get a bite in five minutes 

 wind up and make a shorter or longer throw, whichever you 

 deem best, but always in a line with the course the worms took. 

 When you get a bite you will know where to throw to get another. 

 "When you have caught four or five fish cast in twenty or thirty 

 more worms, but be careful and throw them in the same place 

 as you did the first lot, then there is nothing to prevent you 

 having a good day's sport. 



CHEESE FISHING FOE BAEBEL. 



I will suppose you have baited a place with the dose I have 

 recommended, and allowed thirty hours to pass before fishing. 

 The water must be deep and the stream slow for cheese fishing, 

 because if you were to throw cheese into a sharp 'stream with a 

 gravelly bottom, it would swim a long way before it got to the 

 bottom, and when it did get there it would roll to a great distance, 

 in fact, it would never stop until it lodged against some obstruction 

 in the water, and not only that, but Barbel do not bite at cheese 

 in streams. The best time to catch him with this bait is when 

 he leaves the streams about the beginning of August, and takes 

 to deep and still water. If the water runs deep at the side you 

 may commence fishing with the tight float. It is done in this 

 style : take your cork float, and tackle recommended for cheese 

 fishing, and put it about two feet deeper than the water, so that 

 your bait and first two or three shot may lie on the bottom. 

 Cast it down the stream so that your tackle and bait may sink 

 itself, and allow your bait to lie straight down the stream ; hold 

 it quite still, and at the same time be careful how you move about 

 on the bank, for the least shake will drive the fish away when 

 fishing so close to the side. But before you commence, throw 

 in about twenty bits of cheese, and find them before you throw 

 any more. I mean, catch two or three fish before you cast in 



