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their proper season. The baits I have found 

 most succefsful, are, minnows, small dace, 

 brandlings, marsh, and red worms, the may- 

 fly or green drake, the grey drake, the ^tone- 

 fly, the bracken clock, and the brown beetle. 

 These flies must be dibbled with ; the river 

 being much incommoded with trees and hop 

 plantations, you cannot use a long line ex- 

 cept in very few places. 



Minnow Fishing. The rod for this pur- 

 pose, as well as every other method of ang- 

 ling for trout, must be long and light in 

 hand, with rings for the running line, which 

 may be either silk or hair, (fine raw 'silk 

 twisted together, makes excellent lines for 

 this purpose) and about three feet of stout 

 silkworm gut for the bottom links, with two 

 or three small swivels which will prevent 

 the line from twisting, arid cause the min- 

 now to spin better ; if you use three hooks 

 as directed for pike, the bottom swivel must 

 be open at one end, that the link on which, 

 the hooks are tied, maybe taken off occasion/ 

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