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the head and out at the neck of the first, and through 

 the other from head to tail. 



Another very killing method with the caterpillar, is 

 to lap a bittern's, or any dun hackle approaching in 

 colour that of the bait to be used, around the shoulders 

 of the hook, and cover the remainder of it with a 

 caterpillar. A bristle must be inserted in the shank of 

 the hook as before. To use this hermaphrodite mongrel 

 of a bait, pull out a short line, and dip with it over the 

 banks and bushes, etc., as with the natural fly. 



Doubtless the list of natural baits taken by fish in 

 general might be extended almost ad infinitum, as they 

 will occasionally swallow almost any fresh animal sub- 

 stance that their jaws can encompass, not even excepting 

 tin tea-spoons garnished with fish-hooks for sauce (which, 

 by the by, is not strictly speaking an animal substance), 

 and anything from a drowned admiral to a living midge. 

 A worthy knight of the cleaver of my acquaintance was 

 in the habit of using no other bait than raw bullock's 

 liver, with which he often succeeded in capturing a finer 

 dish of trout than many of his more pretentious neigh- 

 bours. But in the case of the more dainty feeding 

 trout, who does not display any special predilection 

 for defunct naval officers or soup-ladles, but whose bill 

 of fare includes almost every member of those classes of 

 animated nature termed insects and zoophytes with the 

 exception, perhaps, of an angry scorpion within its 

 range, the list of baits enumerated will surely furnish a 

 sufficient variety either to suit the tastes of the most 

 capricious fish or the most fastidious fisher. 



