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Trout, or a thumping Perch, should take a fancy to that bright 

 red worm you are fishing with, and excellent sport it is, after 

 killing a lot of small fry, to hook a fish that will give you a 

 run of thirty or forty yards. The same rod and line recommended 

 for gentle fishing will do for fishing with the worm, but the hook 

 should be No. 10. Get two or three hundred red worms of all 

 sorts for ground bait, and one hundred well-scoured cockspurs 

 for the hook. Arrange your depth so that your bait will just 

 miss the bottom, then mince five or six red worms into very 

 small bits, and if the water is three or four feet deep, and the 

 stream not very rapid, throw them in three yards above you, and 

 you will find that the fish will bite about two yards below where 

 you stand. Now take a well-scoured cockspur and put the hook 

 in at the head and carefully thread it to an eighth of an inch 

 of the end of the tail. You must not run the hook quite to the 

 tail-end as that would kill the bait and take away its attraction. 

 Allow a little bit to writhe at the point of the hook, and if you 

 have a sharp rod and a quick eye you will catch nearly every 

 one that bites. Let your float swim in the right style, and give 

 the fish the same treatment as for ground baiting that I have 

 recommended for fishing with gentles, and you cannot fail to 

 have good sport. 



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T. FORMAN, PRINTER, "GUARDIAN" OFFICE, NOTTINGHAM. 



