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ration of alcohol in case of emergency, since it 

 demands a superhuman display of self-sacrifice 

 to split one's last whisky- and- soda with a gold- 

 fish or apply one's favourite brandy-flask to the 

 lips of a swooning minnow. I am, personally, 

 very punctilious in this matter, and never stir 

 from the door until I am assured that a quart 

 bottle of brandy is lying at the bottom of my 

 creel. I must, nevertheless, confess that hither- 

 to the worms in my bait-can have seen little 

 more than the outside of the flagon. 



6. 



Within the limits of a single chapter it is im- 

 possible to deal at any length with the different 

 methods of angling in vogue among fishermen in 

 various portions of the world. But whether it 

 be a man's intention to sniggle for carp, to boggle 

 for bream, to trawl for conger, to blither for cod, 

 to snood for smelts, or merely to plummet for 

 plaice, there are certain rules which he should 

 invariably observe if he wishes to fill his basket. 



The bass (and its relative the double-bass) can 

 be hooked with almost any tackle on any kind 

 of a rod, but the deep-sea bass (or hasso profundo) 

 must always be played con brio below the line. 

 In snaring skate, gunnel, octopi, or indeed any 

 kind of ocean fish, from the homely haddock to 



