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a day's fishing, the swivel will spin round and 

 round when one gets close to it, showing there are 

 twists in the line. These are frequently caused by 

 the rotation of the bait against the water when 

 winding in, especially if the bait has a flat surface. 

 A " dollop " of cheese paste, flattened on the top, 

 will soon make turns in a line if it be drawn 

 against the stream for any distance. After fishing, 

 run the flannel over the line, and you are ready for 

 the next day's work. You cannot be too careful 

 to have a properly floating line. For deep swims 

 and swift streams or runs, heavier floats and thicker 

 running line must be employed than those suitable 

 for gentle, easily managed water, and .the immense 

 length of line out necessitates a hard strike. In 

 weir-fishing, I find the pound-and-a-quarter green- 

 heart rod none too heavy or powerful. It may be 

 considered short for long swims ; but at most 

 weirs the angler stands considerably above the 

 surface of the water and this makes a great differ- 

 ence in the lift of the line, and the heavy stream 

 and tackle materially assist in keeping the line oft 

 the water. 



A full list of chub baits would fill a small 

 dictionary, for surely a greater glutton 

 never existed in fresh water. Anything 

 that can be scrunched up by his powerful teeth 

 seems palatable to the chavender, as Walton 

 calls him. Your chub enjoys such things as 

 cherries, cheese, beetles, lobworms, shrimps, tripe, 

 macaroni, frogs, grasshoppers, moths, small plums, 

 mutton or beef fat, bread, minnows, bleak, &c., 

 in fact, almost anything that can be eaten he 

 will eat. The late J. P. Wheeldon gave me an 

 account of a huge chub being caught with a gummy 



