44 BOTTOM OR FLOAT-FISHING. 



out, work it for a minute or two in the hands, 

 which should be clean. 



Wools, dyes, and flavourings, whether with sugar, 

 honey, or essential oils, are useless or mischievous. 

 Paste is. a good pond bait in summer for Roach 

 and Rudd, and not a bad one occasionally for 

 Carp but this exhausts its role. 



Paste should be put on in a pear shape so as to 

 cover the shank as well as the bend of the hook. 

 When using paste, a few small pellets thrown in 

 from time to time round the float are useful. 



A paste made of cheese is sometimes a killing 

 bait for Barbel and other kindred species. 



MISCELLANEOUS BAITS. 



Caddice, grasshoppers, meal-worms, and earth- 

 grubs generally are occasionally killing baits for 

 all the before-mentioned coarse fish, but they are 

 so difficult to obtain in any quantities that they 

 are seldom worthy of much consideration. The 

 meal-worm, which is perhaps the least troublesome, 

 breeds amongst the refuse sweepings of flour mills. 

 The caddice (or as its name is sometimes abbre- 

 viated " cad-bait") is the larva of the phryganea, 



