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smallest size. Three or four hooks should be whipped on 
fine gut or strong horse-hair, and attached to a short line 
of horse-hair or silk, leaving the hooks each about three or 
four inches longer than the one next above it. A crow- 
quill float, and any light but stiff rod, will complete the 
angling requisites for this fish. 
The bait should be of very small red worms, or pieces 
of them. 
The lowest hook and bait should be suffered to float 
tolerably near the ground, and the highest at mid-water, 
above which these fish seldom feed. At the slightest indi- 
cation of a bite the rod should be rapidly raised, as by this 
means many minnows which would otherwise be lost will 
be taken, while the worm is only partially in the mouth. 
CARP-FISHING. 
The tackle for these fish should be as follows :—Rod, 
an ordinary bottom-rod—the general one described at 
