210 FRESH- WATEK SHRIMPS. 



jar with cabbage leaves and damp grass, and applied 

 to a fly-hook, which must be buried within their bodies, 

 and fished with without any sinkers on the line, as in 

 roving with worm. 



The Screw, or Freshwater Shrimp, is also much fed 

 upon by trout, and I have seldom looked into a trout's 

 throat without observing their mutilated remains ; and 

 were it not that they are exceedingly tender and difficult 

 to retain on the hook, they would form first-class baits 

 when the waters are fine. They may be obtained in 

 almost any quantity in every little rill of clear water or 

 well-spring, by means of a bowl-net of the size and 

 shape of a large table-spoon or soup-ladle, made of 

 muslin, with a rim of brass wire, and preserved alive for 

 use in a small can of water, which ought to be changed 

 every two or three days ; or they may be put in a tin 

 box pierced full of holes, and placed in the bottom of a 

 rill of water. 



In angling with them, two or three are to be put on 

 a small fly-hook, one covering the shank lengthways, a 

 second across, and a third stuck on the point so as to 

 cover it the same as in cad-bait fishing. If used in still 

 deep water, a small quill-float may be used, with a small 

 shot-pellet on the line ; but in the streams, they must 

 be either dropped or swung into the water, but not cast 

 (as that rough method would instantly destroy them), 

 and allowed to be carried into the eddies with the 

 current, without either float or sinkers. The same plan 

 ought to be observed with caterpillars, maggots, grubs, 

 and all such tender baits. 



