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the bottom, such places as may be suitable and are free of 

 weeds. You will then know where to go to at once, and avoid 

 much trouble. If you fish for Bream in March or April, the 

 shallows are the only places you can catch them in, for there 

 are none in deep water. It is of no use ground baiting in 

 spring; the worms are too cold, and a very few bits will satisfy 

 them. But in the summer months in this kind of water you 

 should give them five or six hundred dew worms cut into bits 

 an inch long, because large Roach and Perch resort to the same 

 places, and the tackle and bait recommended for fishing such 

 places for Bream are also suitable for them. Having got tackled 

 out, get the proper depth, allowing your bait just to miss the 

 bottom, then cut four or five dew worms into bits about the 

 size of horse beans. If the stream be slow throw them in about 

 a yard above you, and they will get to the bottom three or four 

 yards from where you stand to fish. Now put on two inches of 

 the tail end of a well-scoured female lob, and be careful how 

 you move on the bank, for the least shake will drive away every 

 fish in the place. Fetch your line from two or three rings up 

 and make a cast the same distance as you have thrown the ground 

 bait. As soon as you see the float rising, lay the line behind 

 it, so that your bait may swim first. If the fish begin to bite, 

 give them no more worms until they begin to fall off, then 

 throw a few more in. If you do exactly as I have told you 

 there is no doubt but your sport will be good. It wao in this 

 style, and with this kind of bait, that in 1855 I caught eighty- 

 four pounds of Bream, in four hours, on the river Lee, near 

 London. 



In deep stagnant waters the first thing you should do is to 

 find out that part of the pond, lake, or whatever it may be, which 

 is freest of weeds, and has nothing foul on the bottom. Then 

 ascertain the depth and allow your bait to lie two or three inches 

 on the bottom. This is the only kind of water in which 

 I recommend the bait to lie on the bottom, and the reason I do 

 so is, that the worms you have thrown in have gone to the 

 bottom, and must remain there until the fish find them, and 



