. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 279 cording to the tide or current ; see that all your tackle he strong, and you are rigged. If in fresh water, bait with worms, pieces of fish, frogs, entrails of chicken ; for salt water, pieces of clams, fish, shrimp, or anything else you think they will fancy. The largest and oldest of the family snake along the rruddy bottom at night, and perhaps accommodating you with a bite, will
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 279 cording to the tide or current ; see that all your tackle he strong, and you are rigged. If in fresh water, bait with worms, pieces of fish, frogs, entrails of chicken ; for salt water, pieces of clams, fish, shrimp, or anything else you think they will fancy. The largest and oldest of the family snake along the rruddy bottom at night, and perhaps accommodating you with a bite, will allow you to draw them up, of a size such as may trouble your dreams. Some salt water anglers take them with shedder crab and shad roe, after the following manner; they procure some white horse hairs, and work them into the shape of a bag, and within place their bait, or wind them thoroughly around a good size bait. They attach this to a hand line, with a sinker of sufficient weight to sink it to the bottom. The Eel takes hold, and soon entangles his teeth in the mesh of the bag, and is brought up without difficulty. The bob is made by stringing on to a strong piece of worsted yarn or linen thread, a large number of worms, wound up into a ball, and by attaching your line, and letting it down with an appropriate sinker, to the bottom ; when you feel any bites, give a little time, that they may get well hold ; pull up mode- rately until at the top of the water, then give a jerk, sudden but steady, and you will, if successful, have several that will clear themselves without your help. Pot fishing is still more of the wholesale kind, and is much practised in the country streams. The pot is made much after the fashion of an Irish potatoe hamper, but of the commonest basket materials, and the end like the entrance to a mouse trap, forming an inverted cone, with an elastic hole, large enough for the animals to squeeze their way through. These ends are constructed so that they can be t
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