8 ANGLING. 



tree, bush, or hurdle. If fishing for carp exclusively, 

 paste will be found a better bait than worms for the hook, 

 but all this will be treated under the head of " carp," and in 

 the proper place. After taking a fish or two the best plan, 

 if the angler observes that they are scared at all, will be 

 to throw in a handful or two of bait, and to go to the 

 next pitch, and so on to the next when the same occurs, 

 or back to the other as he may fancy thus he will save a 

 good deal of time, and increase his chance of sport. 



This is the first and simplest kind of fishing, and, as I 

 have said, is usually the method in which the young angler 

 first breaks ground into the noble art : if a boat is used 

 there is no difference in the method. But ii' small perch or 

 roach are the aim, then the bait should not be on the 

 ground, but an inch off it, and the angler may, if he has a 

 mind, use a couple of hooks, one six inches above the other. 



Bottom fishing in running water is rather more difficult 

 of achievement ; and this again is divided into fishing 

 with a moving, and fishing with a still bait. The moving 

 bait is either allowed to trundle along the bottom without 

 a float, in which case the angler strikes by feel (this is 

 described under worm fishing for trout), or it is attached 

 to a float which is weighted, and the line plumbed, so that 

 the float shall carry the hook just off the bottom, now and 

 then perhaps touching it, or " tripping," as it is termed, 

 and the float projecting half an inch above the surface. 

 This travels along down stream, and whenever the float 

 bobs or sinks under the water, the angler (unlike " still " 

 fishing) strikes at once with a short, sharp, upward jerk of 

 the wrist, for the fish bite much quicker in running than in 

 still water. Little time is afforded them to nibble at and 

 play with the bait as it floats away down stream from 

 them, if they do not secure it in their mouths at once. 



