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implement; and the best baits for this method are the 
common ground-worm or the little scarlet brandling. 
The latter. particularly in rapid channels and scours. 
Cheese pastes are also used, and at times successfully, 
but Ido not advocate their use, but the most certainly 
deadly of all baits is the paste made from the preserved 
roe of any fish which frequents the waters you are to 
fish. Trout-roe, in lakes or rivers haunted by that 
gamest and best of all the inhabitants of the water, kills 
unerringly. , 
In brackish water shrimp beats the world for perch, 
remembering that you fish near to or upon the bottom. 
Perch, especially when of large size, may be trolled 
for as pike, with the hind legs of a frog, or with any 
small fish on a gorge hook. But in my opinion the 
prettiest of all modes of catching them is to rove for 
them with the live minnow. 
For this purpose you take a fine, clear, gut leader, 
with a No. 9 Limerick hook whipped on at the tail, and 
an inch and a half above it, and back to back to the tail 
hook, a second one size smaller than the first. The 
upper should be hooked securely into the lower jaw of a 
moderate sized minnow, and the lower into his dorsal fin, 
care being taken not to pierce his back, when he will 
swim about naturally and gayly for many hours, if not 
taken by a fish, and if carefully released without lacera- 
tion, will survive the operation. A small cork, or what 
is better, quill-float, is necessary to this method, and a 
