TEOUT FISHING WITH BAIT. 85 



them in a tin box with wet weeds to keep them moist. I 

 generally use a fragment of bristle on the shank of the 

 hook, leaving a quarter of an inch or so pointing upwards 

 and outwards a little, so that when the creeper (which is 

 very soft and easily damaged) is drawn up on to the 

 shank of the hook, it prevents it from slipping down on to 

 the bend, and keeps it in its place. Use a 7 or 8 hook 

 on fine gut, put the point in at the thorax, and bring it 

 out at the tail, draw the creeper upon the shank, which 

 should be just long enough down to the bend to hold it. 

 Use one or two shot on the line as the streams may require, 

 and cast and work it just as you would a worm casting up 

 stream. It is a troublesome bait to fish, it being so often 

 necessary to renew it, owing to its softness, but it is very 

 deadly at times. Always strike when the line stops, no 

 matter what causes it, your bait will be spoilt, so you may 

 as well take the benefit of the doubt. The moderate 

 streams are best for the creeper, and even pools ought not 

 to be neglected. In every other respect what has been 

 said of worm fishing applies here. 



DIBBING or DAPING (called also SHADE PISHING) for 

 trout resembles the same operation for chub, only you run 

 more on flies than you do on insects, beetles, &c., for bait. 

 A big fat greendrake or a couple of big alders, or even 

 bluebottles being selected in preference the hook being 

 smaller. The method is precisely the same as is given for 

 chub. It is a very deadly way of fishing when pursued 

 skilfully, many big fish which cannot be got at in any 

 other way being captured by it. It is needless to say that 

 the angler must approach the bank with every possible 

 caution, and when he hooks his fish he will often have to 

 hang on to him, as his whereabouts will probably be rooty. 

 Often, too, he will not be able to see the rise at his flies, 



