38 BOTTOM OR FLOAT-FISHING. 



remarks elsewhere made on baits and ground-baits, 

 are applicable to Nottingham fishing. 



BAITS. 



WORMS. 



THE best worm for every description of angling, 

 except Barbelling or Bream-fishing, is usually the 

 brandling or dunghill worm, found in old rubbish 

 and manure heaps. In common with all other 

 worms brandlings are better scoured /.*., kept for 

 a few days in damp, clean moss, before being used. 

 Of other kinds of worms, the reddest are the best. 

 For Barbel, Bream, and Chub the tail end of a 

 lob-worm, about 2 inches, is, for some reasons 

 probably because it is larger a better bait. Lob- 

 worms can frequently be obtained in the same 

 spots as brandlings in kitchen-gardens, and 

 generally in any moderately damp, heavy soil. 

 Lob-worms also come out in great numbers on 

 dampish, low-lying lawns at night, and may be 

 then gathered on and round the edges of the grass, 

 borders, &c., in great numbers. I have repeatedly 

 picked more than a quartful of solid worms in 

 this manner in half an hour. Some lawns, 



