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streams, &c. will allow of it. Lead is legitimately used 

 only in bottom-fishing in discoloured waters, and when 

 they are large from floods ; but in clear waters it should 

 be altogether dispensed with. I must again take occa- 

 sion to advert to the necessity of your learning the 

 haunts of trout. If you gain this knowledge, you will 

 have acquired one of the greatest secrets of success in this 

 and all other kinds of fishing. 



Having prepared, in any of the above ways, you commence 

 fishing by throwing your worm, either by the left-round 

 or the right-round cast, up or across the stream, letting 

 it swim down until you have a bite, and then striking 

 smartly and perpendicularly, when you are almost sure to 

 hook your fish, which you may land as before instructed. 

 The finer your tackle, so it be of the strength required, 

 (for you take the best fish with the worm,) the more 

 likely your success. Throwing the worm is performed in 

 nearly the same way as recommended for the artificial 

 fly, and should be done very lightly. 



To fish the worm properly in clear water it is necessary 

 to wade. The reader must not be weary of having this 

 grand maxim again repeated ; namely, that in all kinds 

 of Angling it is always best to fish up the water, and it 

 is doubly so in clear- water Worm-fishing : Firstly, be- 

 cause you must keep out of sight, or your chance is gone ; 

 and, secondly, your line is generally so short that there 

 is the greatest difficulty in doing this in a clear stream, 

 and on a sunny day, which is the best time for this fish- 

 ing. I do not, however, mean that you are always to 

 wade up the middle ; or, as I said before, that you are 

 always to throw your worm directly up the stream, but 

 across rather, and above you, letting it be carried down 

 by the current. By so doing you have much greater 

 command of your bait ; and when you have a bite, and 

 strike, are more certain of hooking your fish. Again, as 



