26 MINNOWS AND 



and sides with hooks, leaving the Minnow 

 perfectly straight ; yet it will spin admirably. 

 Place the hooks, either in equal or unequal 

 proportions, on both sides, leaving the spinning 

 part heliind them, and they create such resistance 

 in the water, as to prevent the revolving in- 

 tention from being carried into effect. But, 

 when the spinning machinery is before the hooks, 

 the water, falllng^r^^ on that machinery, drives 

 round both bait and hooks with rapidity. 



And now for the manufacture and arrange- 

 ment of these baits. 



Double a piece of tolerably thick gut, and 

 affix two or three triple hooks {vide Plate II., 

 fig. 10.). Double another piece, something 

 shorter, attaching only one or two triple hooks, 

 (Plate II., fig. 11.). Fasten them to the artificial 

 bait (fig. 1. Plate I.), by passing one of the loops 

 of gut, to which the hooks have been previously 

 tied, through the upper hole in the brass (fig. 1.). 

 In like manner, pass the loop of the other piece 

 of ojut throu2:h the lower hole. You will now 

 find these tw^o loops parallel to that formed by 

 the wire which passes through the bait. Take 



