SORTS OP BAITS
Is there any more strenuous labour than that indulged in by sea anglers in search of bait? It is true that there are substitutes for the lugworm. One encounters resourceful characters who bait their hooks with things less hard to obtain. The lazy man, to whom expense is no object, uses a bit of herring that may or may not stick on the hook. The unfastidious swears by the entrails of chicken —it used to be rabbit—and probably applies it to his hook with a clothes peg fastened on his nose. The novice tries a garden worm and the hopeful one plumps for bacon rind, all to save labour. The dyed-in-the-wool sea angler wants the lug or ragworm, and is prepared to move half the sea-front to find it. The man who has the genuine article fishes with the know- ledge that nothing worth while is to he had without labour. No self-respecting codling mis- takes the entrails of a chicken for a Ingworm. They don't taste the same, even if they look much the same in the murky depths at midnight.
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