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by allowing your bait to lie two or three inches on, the fish pick 

 it up the same as they would the ground bait. Some of my 

 readers may say, " You are now fishing with the bait on the 

 bottom to imitate the ground bait ; why, then, not do the same 

 in a stream ? the worms you throw in roll on the bottom 

 until something stops them, and to imitate this the bait should 

 drag two or three inches on the bottom." My answer is, that 

 as the bottom part of your tackle swims first, the bait would run 

 against the nose of any fish that lay in the way, and compel him 

 totakeit, but by allowing it todrag, evenif he should happen to see 

 it passing, he must turn round and swim after it before he can 

 take it ; then if the fish are eager and keen to bite, the head of 

 the worm which goes first when the bait drags, is sure to be 

 snapped at, and when you strike you miss the fish and spoil the 

 bait ; again, when the hook is dragging it is liable to catch 

 anything foul lying on the bottom, and in my opinion the odds 

 are a hundred to one against a dragging bait. In the style I 

 have recommended the bait goes first, the tail writhing on the 

 point of the hook. Is it likely that a fish would shift out of his 

 place to allow it to pass ? I should think not. It is like poking 

 your fist into a man's face, and daring him to come on. You 

 see fishing in a stream and in still water are two different things. 

 Now, having got the right depth, cut three or four dew worms 

 small, and as manv cockspurs into two pieces, and throw them 

 all in together in the place you intend fishing. Then take two 

 good sized cockspurs and put your hook in at the head of the 

 first one, and out half an inch from the tail ; draw it up the gut 

 and put the hook in the other a quarter of an inch below the 

 head, and thread it to a quarter of an inch of the tail, then draw 

 the first one carefully down to it, and you will have a very 

 attractive bait for pond fishing. Now, whether on a bank 

 or in a boat, be very still, and make a cast to the place 

 where you have thrown the ground bait. The moment the bait 

 gets to the bottom the chances are that the float goes under. 

 Throw in three or four dew worms about every twenty minutes, 

 and I have little doubt you will return satisfied with your sport. 



