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fishing will be the very things ; your float can be a small cork 

 one, or a fair-sized pelican quill ; the tackle should be about a 

 yard long, medium gut, stained, and armed with a No. 7 or 8 

 hook ; the bait is the tail end half of a maiden lob-worm, and 

 it should be well on the bottom; ground-bait with coarse worms 

 cut up very small, and if you get them well on the feed, and 

 a suitable place, you will have capital sport. A friend and I 

 one day caught in one swim, fishing from a boat, and allowing 

 our floats to work down .the steady stream for thirty yards, so 

 as to cover as much ground as possible, no fewer than eighty- 

 six, and many of them real good ones. 



The flounder is also caught in exactly the same way as 

 described in ledgering for eels with the " lazy back." The 

 plumb, the two tackles, and the worm for bait, on a No. 7 

 or 8 hook. " Pin lining " is one plan of catching flounders, 

 only this is the way of the pot-hunter. Pins are fastened on 

 lengths of gut in exactly the same way as described for 

 sniggling for eels, and ten or a dozen of these are fastened to a 

 long line at regular intervals. The worm is baited as described 

 in sniggling, and a stone is fastened to each end of the line to 

 keep the baits down at the bottom ; if you get a favourable 

 place and a sunshiny day, you catch a lot of these fish. From 

 four to eight dozen have been taken by this plan in a single 

 day. 



