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again enter the barb at the middle of the second worm, and bring it up 

 very nearly to the head. Draw down the first worm to meet the 

 second, and the bait will move on the bottom with a natural motion. 



Paste composed of roe of the Salmon, taken out when freshly killed, 

 washed carefully, and cleansed of all the impurities, the blood and fila- 

 mentous matter, thoroughly dried in the air, salted with two ounces of 

 rock-salt, and a quarter of an ounce of saltpetre to a pound of spawn, 

 dried gently before a slow fire, or in an oven at a low heat, and then 

 potted down and covered with melted lard or suet in earthen pots, is 

 a most murderous bait both for Trout or Salmon. When a few weeks 

 old, it wiU cut out of the pots like stiif cheese, and will adhere readily 

 to the hook, though it is not amiss to bind it on with a slip of Salmon- 

 colored floss silk. This will be found as efi'ective for Brook Trout as 

 for Salmon ; and it is not unworthy of remark that the roe of the 

 melter will most surely take the female, and that of the spawner the 

 male fish. It has been hence suggested that if people will fish on the 

 spawning beds when the fish are in the act of breeding, by using the 

 female spawn or roe, they will do much less mischief than by any other 

 mode, though it is little probable that the gothic savages who resort 

 to these practices at all will trouble themselves so far as even to en- 

 deavor to do a minimum of mischief. 



Lastly, the Minnow, the Shiner, the Smelt, the Sparling or Athe- 

 rine, and above all, the young Parr, are very killing baits, especially 

 when there is a freshet in the stream, for the Salmon, upon spinning- 

 tackle. 



A powerful long rod should be used for this mode of fishing ; the 

 line and reel as before, but there should be at least two swivels on the 

 line, and a small funnel-shaped piece of lead sliding upon the line. 



There should be one large No. 1 Limerick hook at the end of the 

 gut, and two smaller, about 10 and 5, tied back to back of the larger 

 one. The smallest above, at the full length of the bait, to hook into 

 the lip, when the funnel will slide down upon the nose. The second 

 hook should be passed through the back below the first dorsal fin, and 

 the large hook entered in the solid part of the body beside the anal 

 fin, and brought out at the fork of the tail, giving a curve to the fish, 

 which causes it, when drawn rapidly through swift water, to spin and 

 glance beautifully, in a manner most attractive to this noble fish. All 



