68 OBSERVATIONS 



year, especially small lob worms, red worms,, 

 marsh worms, and brandlings, well scoured ^ 

 use a running line, and silkworm gut for the 

 bottom, the hook No. 4 or 5, and the shot 

 about a foot distant from the hook ; a float 

 is seldom used, the bait being suffered to be 

 carried down by the stream : if you use 

 small red worms, put two or three on the 

 hook, but one lobworm is sufficient ; dock 

 and wasp grubs, gentles, and white snails,, 

 may be fished with in the same way, they 

 are sometimes used with a worm, but the 

 two first are very tender* 



In the year 1779, I was fishing in the 

 Greet, in company with two very expert 

 anglers, and at that time knew very little o 

 any other mode of angling for trout but with 

 a worm; my companions had plenty of 

 minnows, and knowing the superiority of 

 the bait, proposed several trifling wages on 

 their skirr, which I was induced to accept, 

 from a perfect knowledge of the. river, hav- 

 ing fished there when a schoolboy. I had 



