LIVE-BAIT FISHING. 7 1 



trout, or pike be the object of your pursuit, there 

 are certain traditional holes or lairs that will 

 never fail you. An old Scotch keeper, on tak- 

 ing affectionate leave of me the night before I 

 returned southward, said, solemnly, " A' may be 

 deed before ye come back, but there 's ae thing I 'd 

 warn ye in yonder hole, where the swirl comes 

 round the mickle stane, there 's aye a trout beastie, 

 an a grand ane.!" I never verified his words, 

 but I am quite sure John Mclntyre spoke the 

 truth, and kill as many as you will from that 

 particular spot, there shall never lack others to 

 take their place. As with British soldiers in a 

 breach one man down, another steps gallantly 

 into his place so it is with trout and pike. I know 

 an especial run in Penton Hook, a noted place for 

 live-bait-fishing, out of which I have taken two, 

 three, or four in a day, and out of which, within the 

 space of a few yards, I verily believe that hundreds 

 are taken in the course of every year. 



You may use your trolling-rod for live-bait-fish- 

 ing, with the reel and line thereunto appertaining ; 

 a large, fat float, as big as a dumpling, must be 

 provided, through which some three feet of the 

 line are to be drawn" and firmly fastened with a 

 peg. The hook, which is of course tied on gimp, 

 consists of a single eel-hook with a triple-hook 



