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implement ; and the best baits for this method are the 

 common ground-worm or the little scarlet brandling. 

 The latter particularly in rapid channels and scours. 

 Cheese pastes are also used, and at times successfully, 

 but I do not advocate their use, but the most certainly 

 deadly of all baits is the paste made from the preserved 

 roe of any fish which frequents the waters you are to 

 fish. Trout-roe, in lakes or rivers haunted by that 

 gamest and best of all the inhabitants of the water, kills 

 unerringly. 



In brackish water shrimp beats the world for perch, 

 remembering that you fish near to or upon the bottom. 



Perch, especially when of 'large size, may be trolled 

 for as pike, with the hind legs of a frog, or with any 

 small fish on a gorge hook. But in my opinion the 

 prettiest of all modes of catching them is to rove for 

 them with the live minnow. 



For this purpose you take a fine, clear, gut leader, 

 with a "No. 9 Limerick hook whipped on at the tail, and 

 an inch and a half above it, and back to back to the tail 

 hook, a second one size smaller than the first. The 

 upper should be hooked securely into the lower jaw of a 

 moderate sized minnow, and the lower into his dorsal fin, 

 care being taken not to pierce his back, when he will 

 swim about naturally and gayly for many hours, if not 

 taken by a fish, and if carefully released without lacera- 

 tion, will survive the operation. A small cork, or what 

 is better, quill-float, is necessary to this method, and a 



