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longer than your rod, throw your worm gently as far 

 up from you as possible, and allow it to come down 

 nearly opposite to where you are standing, when you 

 should throw again. Casting partly across and 

 partly up is more deadly than casting directly up ; 

 the reason of which is, that in casting directly up, 

 if there is a trout between the angler and the place 

 where the worm lights, all the line passes over it 

 before it sees the bait, and may alarm it. Two 

 casts in one place will in general be sufficient to 

 determine if there is any trout inclined to take ; but 

 if you get a bite, you should of course cast there 

 again. 



In fishing streams, cast in the same direction as 

 in fishing pools ; but as the water is rougher, you 

 will not be so easily seen, and kneeling is unneces- 

 sary. You should always throw your worm a few 

 yards above where you think a trout is lying, as by 

 the time the bait reaches it, it will be pretty well 

 sunk, and trout take a worm most readily near the 

 bottom. As you will invariably get most trout on 

 the opposite side of the water from where you are 

 standing, always keep on the side where you think 

 there are fewest trout lying. The practice adopted 

 by some anglers of wading up the centre of the 

 stream, and casting on both sides of them, answers 

 very well in large rivers, where there is plenty of 

 water to conceal the angler ; but in small rivers it 

 alarms the trout. Not that the trout, where the 

 angler casts his line, sees him ; but those about the 



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