50 TROULING, ETC. 



yet the fish will take them better in their natural state. 

 One day I was angling in the Derwent-with some that I 

 had just taken from the nest, I was at the same time 

 provided with ant-eggs to bait or feed the fish where 

 I intended angling ; the trout began to bite, but every 

 time I struck the only thing I found at the end of the 

 hook was a long thin skin, the inside of the grub being 

 drawn out. I scarcely knew what to think of it, till an 

 idea suggested itself to me. I immediately put it into 

 practice as follows. I took from by baiting-bag some 

 ant-eggs, though I had to put eight or nine on the hook 

 to make it any thing like the size of the wasp-grub. 

 When all was right I threw in again, and directly I had 

 a nibble, then down goes the float, jerk goes the rod, and 

 out comes a fine trout. Well, thinks I, old gentleman, 

 I have been too old for you : I'll try again, and see if 

 there be any more of the same family. "I sometimes 

 used the wasp-grub [and sometimes the ant-egg ; and I 

 found it to answer my utmost expectation, for in a short 

 time I took a dish of very fine trout and a few greylings. 

 They will also take gentles at the bottom. 



TROULING, OR SPINNING THE MINNOW, &c. 



In trouling you must be provided with some No. 2, 3, 

 and 5 hooks, and proceed as follows. Take two No. 2 

 or 3 polished hooks, which you can get at the tackle 

 shops made double; then take a length of strong round 

 silk worm-gut, and with a bit of fine waxed silk whip the 

 double hooks to the end of it ; then take two No, 2 and 



