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of fish will rise at night to a moth. Lobworms will now 

 be at a premium. They should be well scoured and 

 watched day by day, so that the dead and diseased worms 

 may be removed. 



OCTOBER. This is an excellent month for the troller 

 and spinner, and while you have the chance, try and secitre 

 a stock of baits a friend adds, if you can. I have already 

 given the pike-fisher hints as to how to preserve his bait 

 for a season, when fish are plentiful and baits scarce. Roach 

 will take boiled malt and pearl-barley now freely, if pre- 

 sented in a neat and delicate form. Barbel and bream are 

 in good way for their excellent condition. Except you have 

 access to a grayling stream, put away your fly-tackle after 

 drying it carefully. Varnish your rod when you take it to 

 pieces, and see that it is well dried, rub boiled oil over the 

 brass-work. In the absence of more suitable baits, pike 

 will take mice, frogs, and other strange morsels, but the 

 trout and salmon-fishing is over. 



NOVEMBER. Bleak and disagreeable as this month too 

 frequently is, the enthusiastic angler will find much to re- 

 ward his perseverance, particularly if he has secured a good 

 stock of pike-bait and minnow for perch-fishing. Perch 

 are in good condition, and you will find him in deep still 

 water after a flood, or near to a gentle eddy, where the food 

 is brought by the water. Roach of the largest kind may 

 be taken in deep water. Bream, chub, and grayling are in 

 fine condition. Barbel may be coaxed with greaves and 

 chopped lampreys, if the frost holds off. Pike are ravenous, 

 and will take almost anything. Other sports, however, 

 interfere with the angler's recreation, and if the weather is 

 not propitious, he had better stay at home. 



DECEMBER. Jack and roach arc still to be taken in open 



