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chub, roach, and dace, dropped on the surface of the 

 water. 



Paste is a good bait in still, quiet waters, with a small 

 hook and a light float. See that it is clean, or the fish 

 will not take it. 



A good paste for carp, roach, tench, and chub, is made 

 of crumb of white bread. 



A good paste, especially for chub, is made of rotten 

 Cheshire cheese and crumb of bread. 



Greaves paste — that is, a paste made of white bread 

 dipped into the liquor in which greaves have been 

 boiled — is a killing bait for barbel, but wheat paste is a 

 favourite bait in some parts of the country, as is also 

 pearl-barley. The wheat should be freed from the 

 husks by keeping ten or twelve hours in water, and 

 then parboiled, which will swell it to twice its natural 

 size. Malt and pearl-barley may be prepared in the 

 same way. They may be crushed and used like a paste, 

 or a single grain be taken and put on the hook, after 

 the manner of baiting with a gentle. 



Ground-baiting should be done the night before, when 

 it is practicable. 



Greaves boiled, and worked up into balls with clay and 

 bran, is a good ground-bait for barbel. 



White bread soaked in water, and mixed up with 

 bran and pollard, is a ground-bait for carp, roach, dace, 

 and chub. 



Cflay and bran mixed together, and made into small 

 balls, may be used for roach, dace, and bleak. 



Carrion gentles, or luorins cut into pieces, are some- 

 times used with great success in still waters. 



For roach, dace, bream, and every other fish in still 

 water, bread chewed till it sinks is the very best ground- 

 bait ; or, if it be too much trouble, knead some very 

 moist, that it may partly separate as it sinks. Use this 

 in small quantities upon the very spot you fish. 



For roach-fishing in rivers, bread and bran kneaded 

 together till they are sticky or clammy, and put a 

 coating of a quarter of an inch thick round good-sized 

 pebbles. 

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