74 ELEMENTS OF ANGLING. 



something like that of a very short, thick chub. 

 Their colouring is bronze. 



Baits for carp are many, but I have found 

 nothing to beat bread paste sweetened with honey, 

 and small potatoes boiled till they are soft. 

 Worms, wasp-grubs, gentles, grubs of all kinds, 

 green peas, currants, and most things that ingenuity 

 can suggest are worth trying when one is fishing 

 that water where " nobody has ever caught one " 

 there are such places. Ground-bait may consist of 

 bread and bran, either by itself or mixed with 

 boiled potato, and any other delicacy of the season. 

 Where the angler desires to draw fish from their 

 haunts in the weeds to clear spaces which are 

 fishable, it is necessary to use ground-bait liberally 

 for several evenings in succession. Then the 

 baited place may be fished in one of the ways 

 described as suitable for bream or roach, either 

 with float or leger-tackle, the bait being kept well 

 on the bottom. 



Sometimes it happens that the water is shallow 

 and fairly clear from weeds, and that the carp can 

 be seen swimming about fifteen or twenty yards 

 away. In such a case I use no float and no lead on 

 the line at all, and I ground-bait with pieces of 

 paste rather smaller than that on the hook. With 

 a fine dressed running-line, one can throw out a 



