1 #0 ROE BAIT. 



After all, I must confess I have never seen much 

 success with it, except on the first of the autumn 

 or winter floods, when, for a day or two in the sub- 

 siding river it is most deadly. 



One thing that particularly recommends this bait 

 to so many is the simple method of its application, 

 being level to any capacity. 



Receipts for preparing the roe are held as secrets 

 by individuals ; but the object of all and each is to 

 preserve it clean, and near the natural colour. Some 

 prefer it broken into paste ; others preserve it as 

 whole in the roe as possible. One receipt I can here 

 give : Take the roe from the belly of the fish, and 

 put it in water, a little more than milk warm ; stir 

 and wash it till the roe leaves the netting and runs 

 like shot ; clear away the refuse, then drain it, and 

 hang it in a flannel cloth to drip, for twelve hours or 

 more ; put it then in a vessel, and salt it, adding a 

 small quantity of saltpetre, and set it in the open air 

 to dry, or before a fire, not too near ; then pack it 

 in small pots, and run a little suet over it, to exclude 

 the air, when it will keep for years. But at the 

 same time, I must confess, that the best success I 

 have ever seen with the roe bait has been with it 

 simply salted as taken from the salmon's belly, even 

 unbroken from the netting, laid on a board or slate, 



