BAIT-FISHING FOR TROUT 6 1 



excitability of nerves ; and the next time you get a 

 fish in just this way, you will probably basket him 

 without scaring the others sure to be in the pool 

 also. Remember this, and it is one of the axioms, 

 the best fish are in the best places, and where 

 there is one good, i.e., large, fish, there is likely to 

 be more. 



Now, in the next meadow is a corduroy cart- 

 bridge, and beneath it there is sure to be fish of 

 some kind, small, medium, or large, and perhaps 

 all three. Put on another worm, and let us try it. 

 What, you can't get the old one off because of the 

 bristle at the top of the hook ? Pull it right up 

 on to the gut-snell, then ; now double the snell, and 

 draw the worm through the closed thumb and 

 finger. That gets it off, doesn't it ? There are 

 more ways of killing a cat than by simply hanging 

 it, you know. Here's our cart-bridge, and we stand 

 a rod or more above it. Now crawl to a firm spot 

 on the bank about twelve feet away from it, and 

 draw out about fifteen feet of your line, so that 

 you may reach some three feet under it with your 

 bait. How are you going to get your bait there ? 

 Wait a bit ; I'll show you. Here is a flat chip of 

 wood about as big as the palm of your hand. I lay 



