182 LOCH -FISHING. 



cut into several pieces, for the others. The drawing of 

 an eel-line, what with twisting and slime, is often sorry 

 work ; if a large swivel was appended to each hook, it 

 would both tend to prevent this and increase the chance 

 of success. It is of little use to set single hooks for eels, 

 as the great likelihood is that the first that comes may 

 have a mouth too small for sucking in your hook, but 

 large enough to devour your bait / in fact, there are twenty 

 small for one large ; and from a line of three dozen 

 hooks, it is a very good night's work to kill half-a-dozen 

 large eels. 



I have thus given an outline of the different kinds of 

 fishing in fresh-water lochs except perch, which float 

 and worm recreation, as it has come under the ban of 

 Dr Johnson, I might leave the novice to find out for 

 himself. All he has to do is to ascertain their haunt, 

 which any one in the vicinity can show ; fasten a float 

 to his line, and a No. 10 hook ; bait with an earth-worm ; 

 throw in without art ; and give the fish time to gorge 

 the bait before striking, or it may slip out of its capacious 

 mouth after being sucked in. 



