268 THE PROPER HOOKS FOR PASTE. 



thread it in single grains on the hook, mix a little 

 adhesive bread paste with it, and use it as salmon 

 roe paste. Though salmon roe will kill all the 

 year round, it is most deadly in spring and in 

 the autumn and winter spawning months. 



Cheese paste is made with either new or old 

 cheese, by mixing stale bread with new cheese, 

 and new bread with old cheese. The substances 

 must be kneaded together to adhesiveness. New 

 bread and old cheese for chub ; the other mixture 

 for roach. They are both good autumn and winter 

 baits. 



When pastes are used, the hooks should be short 

 in the shanks, of fine wire, and sneck-bent. They 

 should be whipped on with silk the colour of the 

 paste, very delicately waxed with transparent white 

 wax. 



Ground-baits. - These are essential to extensive 

 success, and should be used abundantly, thrown in 

 for days and nights previously at the spots you 

 intend to angle in. They should be thrown in, at 

 all events, the night before you begin to fish. 

 They should be of the same sort as, generally 

 speaking, but of inferior quality to, the baits you 

 are about to use. The more carefully and the 

 longer you ground-bait any locality, the greater 

 number of fish you will find there. Naturally they 

 will congregate to those places at which they find 

 most food. Mr. Elaine explains the rationale of 



