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cient and tempting method of baiting that can be adopted. 

 It ought to be recollected that in all dealings with cad- 

 baits, they must be very tenderly handled, as they are 

 soft, tender, and easily demolished and rendered useless. 

 Having fixed the float so that the bait may 

 sink to within six inches of the bottom (as most 

 of the large bottom-feeding trout at this season, and 

 in such weather, will be lying listlessly on the sandbeds, 

 on the watch for such edibles being brought down 

 by the current), drop in the caddies over hollow banks, 

 between and by the margin of weed-beds, and in any 

 snug and retired spots likely to harbour a fish. In a 

 streamy river, the eddies at the sides of the stream and 

 the point where two currents meet, or the boils at their 

 feet, will be the most likely places ; and if the sportsman 

 is careful to keep his own person out of sight, he may take 

 trout with cad-baits when all others will be disregarded. 



MAGGOTS. 



Maggots may be easily bred by placing a piece of 

 bullock's liver, a small fish, or any dead animal matter, 

 in an earthen dish, and exposing it in the haunts of the 

 blow-fly, when in a few hours young maggots will be 

 deposited. After they attain their full size,- which they 

 will do in a day or two, put them into a mixture of oat- 

 meal and bran (bran alone is too dry), and in a couple 

 of days they will assume a yellowish cast, and be con- 

 siderably tougher than when fresh, while they will by 

 this means be scoured from any adhering filth or 



