]14i BOTTOM FISHING IN THE NOTTINGHAM STILE. 



and any one of them will kill when the pike are inclined to 

 feed, but I suppose I need not say that natural fish baits are 

 the best, if you can get them. 



Pike will sometimes take a very large artificial fly, if fly it 

 can be called. Its body is as thick as a man's finger, and the 

 wings are two peacock's feathers, and it is as big as one of 

 the stuff'ed humming-birds that you see in glass cases. It is 

 worked over weeds and open places, with a series of jumps and 

 bobs. 



One word yet, and I have done. The angler should always 

 pay very great attention to weed beds, reeds and flags, or a 

 sheltered shallow corner, in the immediate vicinity of a deep 

 hole, or just below an island, where the stream is, as it were, 

 broken in two, and a quiet eddy formed in the middle. 

 These are all favourite places, and some good pike are often 

 found therein. 



