LIVE-BAITING FOR TROUT AND PERCH. 187 



attention. He will see prodigies of patience per- 

 formed, and will learn how far a man can be 

 separated from his bait without apparently losing 

 heart. Personally, I find the game too tedious, and 

 prefer to seek Thames trout either with spinning- 

 bait or salmon fly I say advisedly " to seek." The 

 Thames live-baiting method can be modified for 

 other waters. I know, for example, one or two 

 low-arched bridges over small brooks under which 

 no fly could be insinuated. There a live minnow 

 can be drifted down with profit, suspended, say, a 

 foot or i Sin. below a small piece of cork. 

 Similarly, one can fish shallow runs under trees or 

 bushes which cannot be approached by other ways. 

 Float-fishing proper is more applicable to perch 

 than trout, and it differs little from float-fishing with 

 a worm, which the novice has already practised. 

 Legering without a float he also knows, and that r 

 too, can be done with live-bait. 



But there are two other styles of fishing which 

 have not yet been described, and which are both 

 more interesting than the last two. The first is 

 called " paternostering." In this no float is used,, 

 and the lead (usually shaped like a pear with a little 

 ring on the top) is attached to the end of the cast, 

 while about i8in. above it the hook is joined by its 

 loop to another loop tied in the cast itself, and 



