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distinction it is six to one and half a dozen to 

 the other. 



As I like to give the opinions of others on 

 important parts of angling, whether they agree 

 with my own or not, in order that the reader may 

 have a choice, I shall here cite, with respect to 

 putting worms on hooks, two experienced autho- 

 rities. The first is Mr. Elaine, who says, " When 

 one worm only is used, enter the point of the 

 hook at the top of its head, and carefully draw or 

 squeeze its body round the bend, and over the 

 whipping, by means of the finger and thumb of 

 one hand, while the fore-finger and thumb of the 

 other are employed in pressing the hook onwards, 

 until less than half an inch only of the tail part is 

 left, which should be directed within the curve of 

 the bend. If too much of the worm be left un- 

 attached it entices the fish to suck at that, and 

 teases the angler with continual nibbles; till at 

 length, on raising his hook, he finds this portion 

 gone, and the point of the hook exposed. To the 

 careless angler this happens continually. If too 

 little be left, there does not remain enough to 

 attract the fish by the motion in the worm. It 

 had always been our own practice to attempt to 

 direct the projecting portion of the worm within 

 the bend, and one of our first lessons in worm- 

 fishing was never to let the tail project outwards 

 from the point of the hook, that the fish might 

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