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THE TROUT. 
towards you, as if you were angling with a fly. And believe 
me, whoever will try, shall find this the best way of all others 
to angle with a worm, in a bright water especially; but then 
bis rod must be very light and pliant, and very true and finely 
made, which, with a skilful hand will do wonders, and in a 
clear 6tream is undoubtedly the best way of angling for a 
trout or grayling, with a worm, by many degrees, that any 
man can make choice of, and of most ease and delight to the 
Angler. To which let me add, that if the Angler be of a 
constitution that will suffer him to wade, and will slip into 
the tail of a stream, to the calf of the leg or the knee, and so 
keep off the bank, he shall almost take what fish he pleases.” 
The following pertinent remarks for clear weather, from 
Blaine, should have place iu the memory of every lover of 
trout angling : 
li Trout aro to be taken in clear weather, when they will 
not touch either minnow or fly; and there is certainly more 
art and sportsmanship in fishing with the worm at that time, 
than some people imagine or acknowledge. When to tho 
advantage of bright weather arc added those of clear and 
shallow streams, much artifice must be employed. Your 
tackle very fine, your hook small, (No. 5, 6, or 7,) and your 
baits well scoured and lively. A wheel will enable you to 
vary the length of your line as occasion dictates; and though 
in general it must be as long or longer than your rod, yet 
where there is wood, &c. &.C., you may by shortening it, get 
at the holes, and still contrive to kr.cp out of sight , for com- 
pletely so to be must never bo forgotten — kneel, stoop or 
stand — out of sight you must be; anti then if you can lightly 
and neatly drop in a lively brandling, near the likely holds or 
haunts in a strong stream, especially near the top of it, let the 
sun shine ever so bright, be tho wind rough or calm, and the 
water ever so clear, you will kill fish when they are not to be 
taken by any other inode.” 
