How to Get Them 



be unfit for use. Brantlings may be scoured in a 

 day or two, but the other kinds require to be kept 

 at least a week. Immediately on being dug they 

 should be well washed in clear water and placed 

 in an earthern-ware jar with plenty of moss. The 

 moss should be well washed and wrung as dry 

 as possible, and all the sticks and straws picked 

 out, as they are apt to cut the worms. The jar 

 should be examined every second or third day, 

 and all the dead or sickly worms removed, the 

 moss changed, and a few small pieces of bread 

 and a spoonful of milk put on the moss for their 

 nourishment. The process of toughening worms 

 can only be accomplished by keeping the moss 

 dry, so that the worms may lose some of the moist- 

 ure of their bodies and thus become 

 Moss m tou gh and more durable. Of course, if 

 carried to any great extent it impairs 

 their vitality, which gives them a withered look. 

 When thoroughly divested of earthy matter 

 worms can more easily be baited and will last 

 quite a long time alive for the purpose needed. It 

 is important that the worm jar should be kept 

 always in a cool place. For eels and catfish there 

 is no need to use scoured worms, but for chub, 

 dace, trout, wall-eye, sunfish, perch, the two latter 

 especially, they are of great value, and it is also 

 well to choose the right kind of a worm. The red- 

 headed worm is best for perch and wall-eye. The 

 brantling is better for chub, dace, and sunfish. 



When impaling the worm on the hook, it is not 

 necessary to pierce the hook through the middle 

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