FISHING AT A DISTANCE. 67 



England, being chiefly found in the Broad country 

 and the Fens. The Ouse is the chief river which 

 contains the fish, but a certain number have been 

 introduced into the Thames, without much result 

 as yet. There are rudd in Ireland too, where the 

 fish takes the place, and sometimes the name, of 

 the roach. 



The other method of float-fishing at a distance is 

 what is known as " Nottingham " fishing, so called, 

 I believe, because the anglers of the Trent were 

 the first to practise it. It consists in letting the 

 stream carry the float off for twenty yards or more, 

 and so getting a very long swim. It has its 

 difficulties, one being that of getting the line to run 

 out smoothly and easily without checking or jerking 

 the float, another being that of hooking a fish 

 twenty yards or more away, and a third being that 

 of seeing one's float in the distance. The first and 

 second may be to some extent lessened by using 

 a heavy float and a light running line of undressed, 

 or rather un-waterproofed, silk. Some anglers 

 use a plain white silk line and rub it with deer's fat 

 or vaseline to make it float. Others give their 

 line a partial dressing, which makes it buoyant, 

 and lines so prepared can be bought at the shops. 

 I have one which answers fairly well, but its 



floating qualities are not everlasting, and it gets 



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