24 MINNOWS AND 



the bait, a matter which cannot be accomplished, 

 save by the tackle to be presently explained, in 

 any thing like the same perfection, with the 

 artificial Minnow hitherto used. Look at the 

 artificial baits commonly sold. In many cases 

 the hooks are absolutely tied, or in some other 

 w^j fastened doivn, to the thing used as a bait ! 

 or even when left free, when what is called 

 flying tackle, a set of triple hooks, hanging 

 loose, is adopted, a similar thing occurs ; for, in 

 drawing through the water, they cling pertina- 

 ciously to the bait. If you do not choose to 

 take my word for this, just try the difference. 



In real Minnow-fishing, the objection I have 

 made to the hard, curved tail, is at an end. 



True. 



Whence, then, comes it that so many fi?h 

 are lost when using the real Minnow? — Beyond 

 all question, by — 



The bad-arrangement of the hooks. 



I have applied the same principle to the real 

 Minnow as to the artificial bait. Place the 

 hooks on a real Minnow as you will — except 

 with my apparatus (Plate I., fig. 5.), — and they 



