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better. The further out of sight you are the better and longer 

 they will bite. Now, fetch your line from the second or third 

 ring, according to the distance you wish to throw, and cast, 

 keeping your line behind the float, and as much out of the water 

 as you can, without obstructing or laying the float flat on the 

 water ; let your line follow rather tight after it. By keeping 

 the float a little in hand, your tackle and bait will be carried by 

 the stream a little in advance, and if there is a fish in a line 

 with the bait, it will go right into his mouth. If it does, strike 

 gently, otherwise you might cause a break, as your line is nearly 

 tight from the top of the rod to the bait. When you feel you have 

 him, as quick as lightning give him the butt end of the rod, so as to 

 put the hook fairly through his nose, then immediately reduce 

 the pressure, and allow him to go where he likes, unless he 

 makes for a bush or old roots, lying in the water. If he does, 

 you must see which can pull hardest, you or the fish. If you 

 suffer him to get into such places, you will find it difficult to 

 dislodge him, for he will play you the game of " Thread-me-long- 

 needle," running through and round three or four times in a 

 second, leaving your line in a fearful mess. When you have 

 caught two fish, which you will probably do in the first two 

 swims, throw in a little bit more scratching, for I should say 

 you have brought out that first bit with the fish you have killed. 

 Follow this plan up until you have caught them all, or until you 

 have five or six swims without a bite, when you had better seek 

 another place. You need not wait expecting they will come on 

 to take again, for they very seldom will. I do believe that 

 when the day, the wind, and the water is favourable, the angler, 

 if he fishes for Chub in the right style, will, in three cases out 

 of four, catch every fish there is in the place, and very quickly 

 too. For my own part, if I fish a Chub place five minutes 

 without a bite, I go to another swim. I do not believe in the 

 old doctrine of waiting until they come on. No, I have no 

 faith in it. Some Anglers of the old school may say that they 

 would not give a pin for the fisherman who could not stand or 

 sit for twenty hours without a nibble. " Bosh," I can fancy I 



