120 "It is as easy as lying." Chapt. viii. 



in other places, no knot should be tied in this gut, or it 

 may not pass through the hole in the gram. Singe the 

 end of the gut, before binding it to the hook, and whip 

 your loop, and for both of them use fine silk, so as to avoid 

 thickness. Put the loop of the gut through the hole in 

 the gram, and so string on gram enough to cover the 

 whole shank of the hook, the first strung piece of gram 

 resting against the barb, and being kept by it from slip- 

 ping off. 



Before setting to work, let your man get the fish to- 

 gether, by a cast or two more of ground bait. The fish 

 ought to be visibly bobbing up their heads and crowd- 

 ing together for the gram. Then let the man throw in 

 a handful, and with it cast in your line into the middle 

 of the bobbing, gobbling, crowd. You will get one every 

 throw. To use a Shaksperian simile "it is as easy as lying:" 

 you have not got to strike, or to do any thing. You just 

 feel your bait is taken, and you pull him in as soon as he'll 

 let you. You may go on taking one after another out of 

 the same run. They do not seem to mind it, at any rate 

 not till you have made a sensible impression on their 

 numbers. I suppose they do not begin to think of the 

 hotel bill, till after they have had their dinner. 



Fish the rapid heavy runs, not the pools, and when 

 you have established a funk in one place, then try an- 

 other of the previously baited runs. Two or three such 

 runs will suffice for a morning or evening. 



The season for this fishing is the same as for all 

 other Mahseer fishing, the bright-water weather; and 



