142 ANG-LIKG WITH WORM FOR TROUT. 



By a skilful and diligent fisher, in our smaller 

 rivers, trout may be taken with worm all the autumn 

 in almost any state of the river ; and as in the colder 

 part of the season trout generally leave the streams, 

 seeking the more easy current of the pools, they will 

 there also take a worm dropt near them ; in which 

 case it is necessary to give the worm as much of a 

 nice motion by the management of the rod, as to 

 prevent it sinking and settling at the bottom. One 

 man I see daily (an old gamekeeper, in present lack 

 of other occupation, and who "maun do something for 

 his bread") is so excellent at this method, that he kills 

 on an average about half a stone every day, in the 

 Ale water; and to-day (September 16, 1839), after 

 yesterday's very high flood, while Ale water is yet 

 white and muddy, he has come in with nine pound 

 weight of beautiful trout, taken there with the worm. 

 For harvest wages half-a-crown-a-day and victuals 

 I dare say he could teach any active man to do the 

 same in the course of a fortnight's diligent appren- 

 ticeship. 



So far as regards fishing with worm in drumly or 

 flooded waters, except by a knowing and dexterous 

 angler, as above alluded to, I consider it merely a 

 l>:.>y's amusement, generally done without art, and 

 it is not worth further description?. 



