The Perch 



For worm or minnow fishing, the float 

 should be small and well balanced, and the 

 shot for sinkers only heavy enough to keep 

 the float steady. The float should be ad- 

 justed so that the bait may be suspended 

 about a foot from the bottom, and a gentle 

 motion upward and downward may be ad- 

 vantageously employed. No. 5 or No. 6 

 hooks on gut snell with a small swivel to 

 connect the snell to the line may be used. 

 For worm fishing from the boat landing or 

 an anchored boat in eight or ten feet of 

 gently running water, there are two ways to 

 fish. The first is to place the sinker on the 

 line so that the bait will touch the bottom ; 

 in that case the worm should always be 

 lively and kicking, the hook well covered, 

 with only one worm a large bunch of half 

 a dozen worms is unnatural. Another way 

 is to have the bait two feet from the bottom, 

 so that the running water will drift it back 

 and forth; it is well to keep moving the 

 float a foot or so, but in a gentle manner. 



This method also applies to grasshop- 

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