ledger bait
noun1
Fishing, Hobbies, Lifestyle Fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc.
- your ledger-bait is best to be a living bait, though a dead one may catch, whether it be a fish or a frog1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
- LEDGER-BAITS, OR BANK-RUNNERS are often adopted in pike-fishing, and are merely used as a mode of dispensing with the rod1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports: