ledger bait
English
Noun
ledger bait (countable and uncountable, plural ledger baits)
- (fishing) Fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc.
- 1653, 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:
- your ledger-bait is best to be a living bait, though a dead one may catch, whether it be a fish or a frog
- 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports:
- LEDGER-BAITS, OR BANK-RUNNERS are often adopted in pike-fishing, and are merely used as a mode of dispensing with the rod
References
“ledger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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