BAIT-FISHING FOR TROUT 67 



that the parent blow-flies or 'blue-bottles can get 

 in, but that no cat can get the liver out. Let 

 it remain in the sun until it has been very freely 

 "blown;" then remove it to a shady spot, and 

 cover it up from the rain or other disturbing in- 

 fluence. In a few days more or less, according to 

 the weather, the eggs will hatch, and the young 

 maggots will begin to feed and grow. In a week 

 they will be full-grown, and the liver all eaten, or 

 nearly so. You must now, with a forked stick, lift 

 out what remains of this, and bury it ; and then 

 turn your maggots out into an earthen pan or jar 

 half filled with dry mould and sand. Place them 

 in the cellar for coolness there is now nothing 

 offensive in them for twenty-four hours, and 

 then turn them into fresh bran. In a few hours 

 they will be white as ivory, and a most tempting 

 bait for trout. It is a good plan to throw in a few 

 every now and then in advance of you as you walk 

 down the stream. They should be placed on the 

 hook as in Fig. 32 (p. 68). 



Brook fishing with bait is the best apprentice- 

 ship possible for the young angler, and it may 

 be extended to river and lakes with ever-increasing 

 confidence. Grasshopper fishing for the same fish 



