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higher up, sufficient to sink the float (which 

 should be a swan's quill) so that you may 

 just discern the top of it above water. 

 When you fix on a place for sport, plumb 

 the bottom, and let the bait float not more 

 than two inches from the bottom, provided it 

 is level, the run gentle, and the water deep 

 and clear ; in this manner I have had better 

 sport in winter than at any other time. 

 When the water is coloured with a fresh, and 

 especially if on the rise, you may take them 

 best at the depth of a yard, or a yard and a 

 half. 



When you have thus taken the depth lay 

 aside your rod, and throw in at the top of 

 your swim three or four balls of ground bait, 

 about the size of an egg, with a small stone in 

 each to sink them to the bottom ; this will gra- 

 dually break and spread about, and entice the 

 fish to stop there after being drawn together. 

 The bait is thus prepared : take some coarse 

 wheat bran, and a little sweet coarse flour, 

 or bread, sufficient to bind the bran with 



