Author : Francis Francis
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis A Book on Angling; Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates, Etc by : Francis Francis

Download or read book A Book on Angling; Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates, Etc written by Francis Francis. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...single hook with two brandlings, put the point of the hook in at the head of the worm, and bring it out about the middle; pull the barb through, and draw the worm up the shank of the hook out of the way;l then take the second worm, put the point into the middle of the worm, and thread it on the hook up towards the head, leaving aboiit half an inch of head beyond the point of the hook; draw down the first worm until it meets the second, and the hook is baited. To fish, however, with small worms, as brandlings or 1 In baiting a worm, a small bag of sand to dip the worm into will greatly facilitate the operation, by enablingthe thumb and finger to take a firm hold. 274 AVHERE TO CAST THE WORM, red worms, requires a neat touch and a light hand, as the slightest snap from a trout, such as none but a very practised worm-fisher would detect, is sufficient to tear and spoil the worm; and the young hand had better graduate at tough dew-worms until he acquires skill. To bait Stewart's tackle, take a worm (or even two i needed), and stick the small hooks through it in various places, taking a turn of the worm round the gut between each hook, as shown in Plate VIII. figs. 2 and 3, p. 2S4. When the big hook is used, the trout often takes the bend or only the shank in its mouth, and either feels the steel within or the dra upon the worm, and quickly rejects it, and as the point is not in his mouth, a strike merely alarms him without hooking him; but it is next to impossible for a fish to take any part of the worm in his mouth with Stewart's tackle without having one or two of the hooks in his mouth. In worm-fishing it is often indispensable to wade. Indeed, in nine times out of ten, particularly in fine-water fishing, the angler will have to wade...