Baits

To scour worms:--put them in clean damp moss, changing it in two or
three days, place them between two layers of it, and choose those that
are free from knots. The lob worms are found in gardens; brandlings and
red worms are scoured with the lob worm in the same pot covered at top;
those found in old tan yards are the best, and may be used without
scouring. When you use the worms, dip them in cream, which will refresh
their colour.

The cadis worm or cad bait is excellent for trout fishing, placed on the
hook double, and cast gently with the wind into the stream, or dropped
into the water beneath bushes that grow on the banks of pools where
large fish lie, and are the most likely places. In rivers clearing off
after floods in the summer they do well, and are also good for perch in
deep running water. These cad worms produce many of the flies for the
season after remaining during the cold weather at the bottom rolling
about, and when the spring and summer appear they change into these
beautiful insects; before the change takes place, during the winter,
they form themselves a cover to protect them from the inroads of their
enemies. Their instinct[H] prompts them to incase themselves like a
snail in a piece of hollow reed, open at each end, and covered with
small gravel and little shells, which they attach with a kind of
glutinous substance to resist the force of the water; they creep on the
bottom with six legs, and having their little house on their backs draw
into it at pleasure, and settle amongst the stones like a piece of
rotten branch or stick. The Trout and other fish feed upon them in the
winter, when the winged insects are nowhere to be seen.



Showery windy days are generally best for fly fishing, blowing from the
south, south-west, west, and north; there are but few fish take in east
winds. When the wind blows warm in the beginning of the season it is
good for bait fishing, and in autumn mild days are best. In days when
there is no likelihood of constant rain after clear nights, and a nice
grey cloud covers the sky, with a good cool breeze blowing to ripple the
water, this is the time to rise the large trout, and which afford the
best sport.

"Full nature swarms with one wondrous mass
Of animals, or atoms organized,
Waiting the vital breath, when parent heaven
Shall bid His spirit blow."
THOMSON.





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