220 THE EGLINGTON FLOAT. 



an ordinary float, but it may be made of metal if desired, 

 and then the shot-pellet, a, may be dispensed with. 



This float is intended to lie flat upon the water 

 instead of upright, as the ordinary kind ; therefore, the 

 line next the hook must not be weighted with sinkers 

 so heavily as to cause it to cock vertically. It is 

 obvious, that as the cork will act as a fulcrum, the 

 float will assume a vertical position as soon as the bait 

 is seized by a fish, and thus warn the angler to strike. 



THE EGLINGTON FLOAT, 



So called after an accomplished angler of that name, 

 is another useful form of float for worm-fishing for trout 

 in rough streams, where the bait is apt to become 

 entangled and arrested in its course by stones and 

 boulders, etc., at the bottom. It is made thus : Cut a 

 piece of cork into the same shape as shown by the 

 dotted line c c, in the last figure (the upper part, I mean), 

 and hollow out its broad surface into a shallow concave 

 cup, and furnish it with a weighted quill and wooden 

 peg, the same as in the tumbler-float. It will also lie flat 

 on the water, and the resistance offered to the current by 

 the cup-shaped surface will enable it to drag the bait 

 over such impediments as are opposed to its progress. 



DYEING OF QUILLS. 



Quills for floats may be dyed red, and polished in 

 the following manner : Put as much Brazil-wood chips 

 into stale chamber-lye as will colour it of a deep red ; 



