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these in from time to time near your float, and it 

 will attract the above fish if any thing else will. 



Adhesive paste may be made by boiling slowly 

 for a considerable time the shavings and parings 

 of white glove leather. In the glutinous fluid so 

 produced knead as much stale bread crumb as is 

 required to make a given quantity of tenacious 

 paste. This composition will suit rapid waters. 



Barbel paste, of a very tempting kind, may be 

 made by soaking bread in the liquor from which 

 greaves have been taken after macerating therein. 

 The introduction of wool into the mass will be 

 found useful, to prevent the current washing the 

 paste away. By putting a small morsel of white 

 greaves on the point of the hook, you will prevent 

 its exposure whilst angling with this paste. 



Salmon roe preserved, and salmon roe paste. 

 Both these baits have a terrible reputation, so 

 bad indeed, as to give him who uses them a poach- 

 ing character. Fame is mendacious even in this 

 instance. Salmon roe is sometimes a deadly bait, 

 but is very far from being invariably so. Taking 

 one month with another, the worm will beat it. I 

 have myself, in previous writings, spoken too 

 murderously of it. Longer experience causes 

 me not to think it so very slaughtering. An 

 angler, named Barker, more ancient than Walton, 

 is the first authenticated discoverer of this bait, 

 though it must have been known before his time 



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