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a worm the first time lie seizes it, but merely gives it a 

 shake, and immediately relinquishes his hold ; when, if 

 nothing alarms him, he returns again to the charge 

 within a second or two, and gorges it the next time. 

 On this second indication of his interference with the 

 bait, he may be secured by a smart though gentle twitch 

 of the wrist. 



Proceeding in the above manner, I have on several 

 occasions succeeded in tucking out from two to four 

 dozen fine trout, even from rivulets which in many 

 places were not more than eighteen inches broad at the 

 surface. 



Although this angling on a small scale requires more 

 patience and attention to minutiae of manipulation than 

 will be agreeable to a go-ahead sportsman, yet, where 

 small burns are within reach, they may enable the de- 

 voted angler to fill up a blank hour when sport in the 

 ordinary manner is not to be had, besides furnishing 

 him with a delicious dish of fish, caught in a novel way, 

 when they could perhaps be obtained by no other 

 legitimate means. 



In sluggish muddy waters, too opaque for the efficient 

 use of the fly, the worm also will be the only standard 

 bait besides the minnow, which can be used on all occa- 

 sions with any certainty of success. 



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Fish, no doubt, are materially influenced by atmo- 

 spheric causes to feed either at the top or the bottom of 



