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AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



with avidity. To avoid this, I commonly adjust a large sin- 

 gle hook or triplet, as in fig. 49, below the single hook; or, 

 as in fig. 50, a rubber band is tied so that it keeps the hooks 



Fig. 49. 



in situ, thus causing no inconvenience to the bait except that 

 of having a hook through the gristly cartilage of the nose — 

 which I do not think the bait objects to very much. 



Fig. 51 shows a more brutal "gorge" live bait. It is deadly 



Fig. 50. 



because the fish is allowed to gorge it before the angler 

 strikes on him. That is all the recommendation I can give 

 it. 



In fig. 52 we have the best arrangement for live-bait fish- 

 ing, where large Pickerel, Pike, or Mascalonge are expected. 



Fig. 51. 

 The hook near the gills is lightly hooked under the pectoral 

 fin, and that on the back penetrates the cartilage of the dor- 

 sal — cruel to the bait, but deadly. With it Mr. Alfred Jardine, 

 of London, England, took the two largest Pike ever taken 



