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with the fly in the Thames in summer in good 

 perfection, when fishing for trout. The way 

 to angle for them would be to use a quill float, 

 with a No. 8 hook, or larger, a gut line, and 

 some shot about ten inches from the bait to 

 sink the float, bait the hook with bread paste 

 made red, and made tough in clean hands, put 

 on a piece of it the size of a nut, throw in 

 gently, and keep out of sight. Good cheese, 

 well worked to make it tough, is also good. 

 They will take gentles turned inside out on 

 the hook one over the other, and when you 

 have a bite strike rather quickly. They will 

 also take grasshoppers, blue bottles, cadbait, 

 and cockchafers ; and with ,red or yellow flies, 

 and black and brown palmers in the ordinary 

 way of fishing for trout. 



GUDGEONS AND MINNOWS. 



These are very beautiful little fish, and most 

 wholesome food; they are the best bait for 

 perch, jack, and large trout, that can be, as I 

 mentioned before. The way to angle for them 

 m is to have a couple of very small hooks tied on 



