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bag like a pocket, with a hole or loop so as to 

 fasten it to the button of one's waistcoat, is very 

 useful; in this little pouch we can put just as 

 many worms as may serve to go on with for a 

 time, whilst the others are well protected in the 

 larger bag for worms will not bear much hand- 

 ling or knocking about, and the fisherman does 

 well to take great care of them and keep them as 

 lively as possible. 



Any of the North Devon streams are good for 

 the worm the Bray particularly so on the Moor 

 streams especially between Dulverton and Withy- 

 pool, or the latter and Lanaker Bridge, good 

 sport may always be had whenever there is enough 

 water in the river to form little rapids and 

 stickles. The best time for the worm is very 

 early of a morning the earlier the better, three 

 or four a.m. you cannot be too early; a little 

 practice will soon teach the value of an hour 

 before six a.m. As a general rule, trout are sure 

 to take the worm well in these early hours, and 

 you may with a little skill make pretty sure of 

 the biggest trout in any pool or stickle you may 

 fish. Late of an evening the worm is also taken 

 well ; but though we may kill many trout even 

 throughout the entire day, experience teaches 

 that one hour before breakfast is worth two after. 

 The season of the year to use the worm, is when- 

 ever trout may be legitimately taken ; doubtless 

 trout might be killed with the worm all the year 

 round, but no fisherman would destroy a trout 

 not in condition ; and for North Devon streams 



