Bait Angling for Common 

 Fishes 



THE WORM AS A BAIT 



FISHING with a worm is not held in 

 such high estimation as it deserves, a 

 circumstance entirely owing to its be- 

 ing but very imperfectly understood. Fly- 

 fishers are apt to sneer at worm fishing as 

 a thing so simple that any one may suc- 

 ceed in it, yet a live worm is the most effect- 

 ive, deadly all-round bait available; for 

 all the fishes that swim, either in fresh or 

 in salt water, from the plebeian and lowly 

 catfish to the lordly salmon, at all seasons, 

 daytime or nighttime, it is resistless and 

 bound to be seized with avidity, especially 

 if properly impaled on a hook which is of 

 the right size. Nature's bountiful provi- 

 sion of an inexhaustible supply makes the 



