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PART II. 



CH AFTER 1. DESCRIPTION OF BAITS MOST KILLING FOR TROUT, 

 AND THE BEST METHOD OF USING THEM BOTH IN MIDDLE 

 AND BOTTOM FISHING. 



WHEN you angle for them with a worm at bottom, use 

 a long rod and a short line, so that you may keep out of 

 their sight and command the line. The worms for this 

 kind of fishing are the lob-worm, brambling, gilt-tail, and 

 small red garden- worm but the best are the brambling, 

 gilt-tail, and red worm. Put two small ones on the hook 

 at once, for they are much better than one large one. 

 Your line must have three No. 3 shots about ten inches 

 above the hook, which should be a No, 8. When you are 

 thus prepared, put the hook in near the tail of the red 

 worm and out near the head, then draw it up the line a 

 little to allow you room to put on the gilt tail or bramb- 

 ling ; put the hook in near the head of either of them, 

 draw the red worm down till it joins the other; then 

 drop your [bait behind a stone or under a hollow bank, 

 or behind a root, or in the eddie, and let the water take 

 it round, you still keeping the line tight and feeling 

 the bottom, and the instant a fish bites you must strike 

 and pull out at the same time ; and if at any time your 

 line should stop in any place where it ought to keep 

 moving, strike out, for it is ten to one but there is a 

 trout at the end of your hook. Though the trout is 



