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and bream still congregate, a light quill or porcupine float, 

 that will only carry about three or four No. 4 shot, is ample, 

 and from this you may go through all grades up to a cork 

 as big as a small carrot, or a large radish, and a dozen or 

 twenty B B shot. After this floats are vanity and are 

 useless, and you must use a ledger. 



Stream fishing is, as I have said, subdivided into fishing 

 with a travelling or tripping bait, with or without a float 

 (these I have spoken of) and also with a stationary one, 

 with or without a float. The first of these latter is termed 

 " tight corking," and the latter ledgering or ledger fishing, 

 In tight corking a good heavy float is used, the line is well 

 leaded, and allowed to rest on the bottom, and the float 

 therefore is set six or eight inches or more too deep. The 

 bait rests on the bottom kept in its place by the shots, the 

 float is held up so that it cannot be carried under water by 

 the stream, and as soon as a fish comes up and mumbles 

 the bait the float gives warning of it. 



If the angler likes it better, a combination of ledger 

 and float can be made, which is the acme of tight 

 corking and one of the most killing methods employed. 

 It is simply to use a light ledger lead instead of fixed 

 shots. What the ledger is I will now unfold. The 

 cut of the tackle may be seen at Plate 1, Fig. 1. A 

 bullet or a flat lead with a clean round hole through 

 it is the lead this lies upon the bottom. The line 

 runs through it, and on the hook side of it at any space 

 from two to four feet I like a good length, it gives 

 the bait more play a piece of wood or a shot is fixed to 

 prevent the bullet or lead coming down on the hook. 

 Thus you can weigh the lead two or three feet from the 

 hook and bait, and it can get no further. Now when the 

 line lies free on the ground, if anything touches the hook, 



