AND HOW I HAVE CAUGHT MY FISH 301 



Deeps was one. I longed to give him sport and, 

 to ensure success, I baited each swim night and 

 morning with ever-increasing doses of well-scoured 

 lobs. 



Life comes to food in growing numbers ; feed 

 your sparrows for a week and see. 



In a dark cool outhouse I kept four tubs 

 casks cut in halves well supplied with moss. Little 

 village folks brought tins jugs and utensils various 

 filled with worms captured by candle-light the night 

 before and these were stock for tub No. i, to be 

 promoted, when searched over, to No. 2 and so 

 on until they reached No. 4, by which time they 

 were red, tough and so inviting that sport would 

 surely attend the using of them. 



The little army of wormers soon grew numerous 

 as, in addition to their pay of sixpence per quart, 

 they often got pats and smiles and a lump of cake. 



Barbel like to grub for food in deep holes that 

 have rugged hard bottoms in, or near, the strongest 

 and heaviest stream. If the stream is very strong 

 I use clay so as to sink the worms quickly. It is 

 at the very commencement of the hole you must 

 draw your fish when ledger fishing, which is the 

 method most likely to get the largest. I make 

 the clay into dumplings, with worms inside them, 

 and drop them so that they may sink to the spot 

 where the baited hook will go. 



I much prefer the ledger to a float as with the 

 latter there is sure to come a desire to go the full 



