422 SALMON AND TROUT. 
To carry the baits for worm-fishing an open-mouthed bag, 
from three and a half to four inches square, and attached to 
a button of the coat or a button-hole by a loop of string, 
will be found much the most convenient method. Indeed, 
when constantly wading knee- or waist-deep 1n water, any other 
plan is almost impracticable—unless it be that of the smal. 
angler whose answer, when asked ‘What it was he was carrying 
in his mouth ?’ has become proverbial. 
In spite of the medio ftutissimus ibis maxim, there is yet a 
certain drawback attached to this sort of mid-river work,—the 
drawback of losing time and disturbing the water by getting out 
on the bank for the purpose of landing the fish. On the other 
hand, the attempt to transport them direct from the water to 
the creel without a landing net is an almost hopeless, as well 
as patience-trying, undertaking. The worm-fisher must, there- 
fore, practically as a matter of necessity, adopt a portable land- 
ing net, and that should be so arranged as to be instantly 
brought into play when required. To effect this some fisher- 
men carry a very short net with a wooden hoop, and a handle 
about one and a half foot long which they pass under the creel- 
strap, or a small strap attached to the coat, under and behind 
the left arm, and thence into the pocket. The best form of hoop 
for this sort of pocket net is pear-shaped, about eight inches 
wide by eleven inches in length. Such a net ought not to 
exceed 3 or 4 0z. in weight, everything complete, and with 
it a fish of tvo or three pounds weight can be landed. (See 
chapter on Tackle). 
During nine days’ fishing in the Cumberland Eden and neigh- 
bouring streams Mr. Matthew Humble, Chesterfield, killed 410 
trout. He had forty-six a day on an average. He used the Pennell 
tackle. Several of the baskets weighed 20 lbs. or 21 Ibs. ; the 
lightest was 12 lbs. Mr. Humble’s was certainly by far the most 
successful recent fishing in the North of England.—The Rod and 
Gun, July 4, 1889. 
