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Paste- Baits. 



Paste-baits are not to be angled with in rapid 

 streams; but in pits, ponds, and slow running 

 rivers, on small hooks. In this sort of angling, 

 your eye must be quick, and your hand nimble to 

 strike, or the bait and fish will give you the slip. 

 A quill float is better than cork, as it sooner shows 

 the nibble or bite. 



For a chub, take some old cheese, the suet of 

 mutton kidney, and a little strong rennet; mix 

 them finely together, with as much turmeric as 

 will give them a fine yellow colour. 



For roach and dace, grate fine bread into a little 

 clear water, wherein some gum-ivy has been soaked, 

 add a little butter, and colour it with saffron. 



For barbel, in August, make a paste of new cheese 

 and mutton suet. 



For carp or tench, mix crumbs of bread with 

 honey ; or, for carp, take equal portions of bean or 

 wheat flower, the inside of the leg of a young rabbit, 

 white bees' wax, and sheep's suet ; beat them in a 

 mortar; then moisten the mass with clarified honey, 

 and work it into balls before a gentle fire. 



Sheep's blood and saffron make a good paste for 

 roach, dace, bleak, chub, trout, and perch ; for the 

 chub only, put a little rusty bacon in it. 



Ground- Baits. 



The most simple ground-bait for roach, dace, and 

 bleak, is made by moulding or working some clay 

 and bran together, into balls or pieces about the 

 size of a pigeon's egg, with a little bread crumbled 

 among it. 



Another ground- bait for chub, carp, roach, and 



