This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...for an instant the career of his float. No, it is not an accident, for lie does it at every swim, and it is there he invariably gets his bites. "I see it!" mentally exclaims the delighted looker-on, and he rises, thinking such a wrinkle is sufficient for the time, and ruminates over his accession of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...for an instant the career of his float. No, it is not an accident, for lie does it at every swim, and it is there he invariably gets his bites. "I see it!" mentally exclaims the delighted looker-on, and he rises, thinking such a wrinkle is sufficient for the time, and ruminates over his accession of knowledge as he wades through the flowery meads on his homeward way. "I see it," again he says to himself; "the more timid and larger fish keep a misty distance from the pnnt--a distance at which the ground bait gets broken into welcome pieces, --and it is at that exact spot, ascertained by experience, the practised hand checks the bait, and thus not only gives the fish a better opportunity of seizing it, but causes it to rise slightly from the ground, upon which it has been almost dragging, and thus drop as it were into the mouths of his victims." "It is a good plan in still waters, especially when they 1 are very fine on the feed, to raise your float now and then four or five inches out of the water, several times, and then let it settle, for if anything will tempt them to take the bait it is that manoeuvre. We have frequently been fishing for them when we could not get a fish in any other way: they see the bait moving and are excited to take it."--Rev. J. Martin. This suggestion to watch the actions of others is peculiarly applicable to the Nottingham style of angling. In fishing with the Nottingham tackle, the line, float, and bait should be nearly as free as the current, and run almost at its pace. The Nottingham line is therefore absolutely necessary for this purpose, as its extremely light weight between the top joint and the float only very slightly retards the progress of the latter--a...
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