118 How to fish with a Worm. 



to striking a fish, this is not done with your whole arm 

 raised up to your head, and with all your strength, as if 

 you were intending to pitch him over your shoulders, but 

 by a nice smart action of the wrist, and by slightly raising 

 the fore-arm, and this exactly at the right time. In fishing 

 the running- worm you will have to fish with your arm a 

 little further out than in Fly-fishing ; but not so far out 

 as to prevent your having a due command of your rod, 

 the point of which is to be kept nearer the water than in 

 fly-fishing, in order to let your line run down stream, 

 towards or a little past you. Have as little line as pos- 

 sible in the water, and keep your rod over your bait as 

 it travels down stream. Cast it the same way as you 

 would a fly, but keep your rod lower while the bait 

 moves on. Your eye will tell when the line is stopped by 

 a fish biting ; the hand will then act instantaneously in 

 unison with it, and the movement upward with the point 

 of the rod will be made almost as quickly: but practice, and 

 practice only, will direct the force of the action in striking. 

 It depends upon that sympathy between hand and eye, 

 spoken of before, which is so requisite in angling well 

 and neatly, and which so distinctly marks the difference 

 between a novice and an old practitioner. Should a 

 practical Angler want a dish of trout for a friend, or an 

 invalid, he can almost at any time procure one by means 

 of this bait. 



Green baize or woollen cloth of any kind is the best 

 material for your worm-bag, taking care always to keep 

 the moss therein damp. 



In coloured waters fish the tails of streams, and pools, 

 small eddies, and all places where trout are known to go 

 in search of bottom feed, even very thin water, which 

 appears hardly deep enough to conceal them ; indeed no 

 likely spot is to be omitted. 



Where large baskets of fish are the order of the day, 



