and heaps of old tanner's bark. It is a good "bait for 

 small trout, perch, and par. 



Maggots, or gentles, as they are mostly called by 

 South-country anglers, may be bred by any person 

 who requires them, by exposing a piece of offal to 

 be blown on by flies. A stock may be preserved for 

 winter use by putting a November brood, well sup- 

 plied with bran, into a cellar or cool place, where 

 they are not likely to be killed by the frost. When 

 angling with gentles, it is best to keep them amongst 

 bran in a small tin box. In fly-fishing for trout, a 

 gentle, on the point of a hook, is sometimes used, 

 with a hackle, to considerable advantage. The young 

 brood of wasps and bees; grubs, which are turned 

 up by the plough in spring ; and cad-bait or caddis- 

 worms which are the larvse or maggot of two or 

 three kinds of flies, and found in streams, inclosed 

 in a case of small shells and stones, hollowed twigs, 

 straw, and pieces of reed are occasionally used as 

 bait. The young brood of wasps and bees, when, 

 dried in an oven, become tough, and will keep good 

 for a month. Cad-bait are to be kept in their cases 

 in any cool place amongst damp sand. 



Paste for bait used in angling for carp, chub, 

 roach, or dace, may be made of a piece of soft 

 white bread, new from the oven, dipped in honey; 

 or, instead of honey, loaf sugar, dissolved and sim- 

 mered over the fire to the consistence of syrup, and 

 worked with a piece of new white bread to the 

 consistence of a tough paste. It may be coloured, 



