CLEAR WATER WORM FISHING 109 



On no account must sinkers be used. Worms 

 without knots in the middle are best. Brandlings 

 and red leaf-mould worms are too soft. The small 

 worms of about one and three quarter inches long, 

 found in gardens and old road sweepings, are quite 

 suitable. When well secured in sphagnum moss 

 they turn to a bright, lightish colour. Some fisher- 

 men keep a heap of garden soil in a shady corner, 

 into which potato peelings are thrown. The worms 

 bred in this way are excellent. Ordinary hedgerow 

 moss is not so good as sphagnum. It is too coarse, 

 and full of sharp bits of grass and sticks. 



A good receptacle to scour worms in is a large, 

 corked flower-pot. It should be filled with sphag- 

 num, and the worms, when washed, dropped into it. 

 The moss should be soaked in water and then 

 wrung out, leaving just sufficient moisture in it to 

 keep the receptacle cool. This done, a piece of old 

 canvas can be tied across the top, and the pot 

 placed in a shady corner of the garden. If a good 

 deal of this kind of fishing is contemplated two pots 

 should be kept going. When one has been used up 

 clean it out well, and put in fresh moss. If these 

 instructions are followed worm fishing is not by any 

 means a dirty business. 



When setting off for a day's fishing in hot 

 weather two little flannel bags are necessary; one 



