SPINNING AND BAIT FISHING. 391 
The ‘Leap’ on the Bush—a high fall into a rocky chasm, 
which ends both my angling experience and local topographi- 
cal knowledge—is considered the best place on the river for 
the worm, doubtless because the fish work their way up to 
this point with the rising water, and there find themselves 
barred in the ‘ pool,’ where if you fish sufficiently long and per- 
sistently you are pretty sure to be able sooner or later to show 
them the worm, or, perhaps, more correctly speaking, to bring 
it into juxtaposition with their noses. 
The method of using the worm on the Bush, which is also 
that most commonly practised everywhere, is of a very primitive 
nature. A single large hook, say grilse size, is whipped on 
to two or three yards of salmon gut, and passed through the 
middle inch or so of three or four lob, and some smaller 
worms (according to the ‘size’ of the water and size of worms), 
which are run up the line one by one as they are threaded on, 
the last small worm being adjusted to cover the point of 
the hook. The worms are now slipped down the gut again, the 
lowest ones over the hook shank. A large shot, or small bullet, 
according to circumstances, is then attached to the line about 
13 feet above the hook. The shot or weight should be sufficient 
to carry the line well to the bottom, but yet should not be so 
heavy as to prevent the stream ‘ dribbling’ the bait along with it 
over the stones and gravel. The method of working this sort 
of worm bait is exceedingly simple. The fisherman, having 
chosen a pool where he is certain that there will be a good 
collection of salmon, goes on fishing it steadily out, throwing 
the bait up stream and letting it be brought down to him and 
carried past him by the current. The length of line to be 
used must, of course, depend entirely upon the size of the 
pool. 
The first symptom of a bite is the bait ceasing to travel, 
followed commonly by a very gentle sort of twitching. Some- 
times, however, as I have pointed out in the ‘Modern Prac- 
tical Angler,’ although, in my experience, not very often, ‘the 
salmon takes the bait in a more reckless fashion, resembling 
