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after they have been in boiling or hot, they 

 become too tender to hold on the hook well. 



A paste made of strong cheese is some- 

 times used with good success in ledger fishing, 

 in the month of May in particular; but 

 you cannot keep it on very well, unless 

 you have a triangular hook. With all these 

 baits, be sure that your hook is well hid. 

 With worms, you may do that very easily. 

 With gentles adopt the following method : 

 First take a small gentle and enter your 

 hook at the very tip of the point of it, and 

 bring it out at the middle of the thick part 

 behind; then push it up over the binding 

 of your hook, letting the point of your 

 gentle just touch the gut. Then take another 

 gentle and pass your hook just through the 

 skin of the hinder part ; then take another, 

 and hook it on in the same way, until you 

 have four, five, or six, according to their size, 

 all working about on your hook, which is 

 completely covered, with the exception of the 

 very point of it. This, in my opinion, is the 

 most killing bait of all for barbel, and you 

 may be pretty sure, that if they will not 

 take that, they will not take anything else. 

 With it, also, you will frequently take chub, 

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