. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. CARP, DA CE AND MINNO W. 415 and arrange the distance between the float and the shot, so that the latter may exactly rest on the bottom, weighing down the point of the float to about ' half-cock,' and letting the gut below the shot and the bait lie on ground. Fix the rod in the bank and keep perfectly quiet. When a bite is perceived, do not strike until the float begins to move away. '' It constantly happens, however, that the Carp will not be
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. CARP, DA CE AND MINNO W. 415 and arrange the distance between the float and the shot, so that the latter may exactly rest on the bottom, weighing down the point of the float to about ' half-cock,' and letting the gut below the shot and the bait lie on ground. Fix the rod in the bank and keep perfectly quiet. When a bite is perceived, do not strike until the float begins to move away. '' It constantly happens, however, that the Carp will not be taken either by this or any other mode of fishing with which I am acquainted ; but if he is to be caught at all it is thus. " The baits are, worms (first), gentles, greaves, grains and various sorts of pastes, of wdiich latter, however, I believe, the plain white bread crumb paste is the best, as well as the most easily made. Prof. Owen, who had a good deal of Carp fishing experience in Virginia water, gave me the results of his practice which concur in a great measure with my own, except that he fished with his bait paste made of soft herring roe worked up with bread crumbs and wool, a favorable substitute sometimes for the ; In Germany the Carp season is in July, August and September. The angler usually prepares for his sport by ''ground-baiting" with a thou- sand or more angle-worms, twenty-four hours before he expects to fish, and while fishing he throws worms into the water. He uses Nottingham tackle, and baits his hook with the tail of an angle worm, or with grains of barley or wheat, a maggot or a wasp-larva, or with balls of dough. The bait rests on the ground, and the fish is allowed to rise toward the surface before striking. The young Carp of two pounds or less bite the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustra
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