5$ BAITS. 



the hook like a piece of squid. Most fish will 

 take them, especially bottom fish. 



THE LUG-WORM. 



The lug, or lurgan, is a worm of a peculiar 

 and, indeed, disgusting appearance, but at the 

 same time is eagerly devoured by almost all fish, 

 especially young codlings and flat-fish. These 

 worms are found in the mud-banks of most es- 

 tuaries, where their whereabouts is easily dis- 

 covered by sundry casts near the hole they in- 

 habit. They are found by digging for them with 

 a very strong kind of prong (see Plate IV, No. 1) 

 in the fisheries, at about half-tide mark, or else 

 with the hands in the soft mud uncovered at low 

 tide. The usual mode is to turn up the shirt- 

 sleeves to the shoulders and the trousers above 

 the knees, when, having walked out to the soft 

 mud, you notice a small puddle, in the bottom of 

 which there is a hole of some depth; into this 



