80 DAYS AMONG THE PIKE AND PERCH 



resolution that declared dead-gorge fishing in any of their 

 waters illegal. 



Well, I never did like that method of fishing, but when it 

 was done among the weeds as friend Harry Norledge did it, 

 its effectiveness was beyond question. Once after that, in 

 the deep water of Houghton Wale, on the Great Ouse, I saw 

 a man get four pike, two of them pretty large ones, by work- 

 ing a dead-gorge tackle all over the place. He would have 

 it that it was more deadly than a paternoster, under certain 

 conditions of water and season. 



