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spirits, with little or no trouble. If you wish to keep 

 fish for any time in this manner, that is, during a night, 

 give them good room in a large tub, free from soapy, or 

 other obnoxious matter, and by no means put any well- 

 water to diem, as it certainly will kill every fish before 

 the morning. 



To take fish out of the minnow-kettle, if you have not 

 a strainer, you should use a very small net, about the size 

 of a tea-cup ; but on no account should your hand be 

 put in for this purpose, as it sickens the fish amazingly \ 



Be careful to have every tiling in readiness, so that, 

 after your bait-fish is fixed on the hook, no time may be 

 lost in putting your line into the water ; else your bait 

 will be inactive, and not allure the perch y &:c. half so 

 well as one that struggles much, and thus rouses their 

 attention. 



i Live lalts generally answer best in mid- water, that is 

 to say, they ought to swim half-way to the bottom, 

 whereby they will be deep enough to be seen by the 

 great fish that are on the feed. Sometimes your baits 

 must be sunk lower, especially in very turbulent waters, 

 or in boisterous weather 5 for in the former they are sub- 

 ject to be occasionally thrown near the surface ; and in 

 the latter, most of the great fishes, of prey especially, get 

 into the deeps among the smaller timid fry, which, on 

 such occasions, go dowlt for warmth and quiet. 



Live laits are more appropriate to deep than to shallow 

 waters -, for even the more ra\ enous fish do not so much 

 like to seize their prey near the surface j though when 

 very hungry, they will take it there, and even dart out of 

 the water at their object, as we often see trouts, &Q, 

 doing while in chace of small fishes. 



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