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and also very often close in-shore. I have killed se- 

 veral Perch and Chub with a small frog hooked by the 

 chaps, but I have only used a frog for a bait when I 

 could not procure live Minnows ^ir Shrimps, as I by 

 no means consider it equal to either of them, as well 

 as being troublesome subjects to travel with, and to 

 keep alive, or to get a sufficient number of. Some 

 :^nglers, when fishing for Perch, use two hooks to a 

 live Bleak or Minnow, one being tied about an inch 

 above the other ; they then fix one to the bait's gills 

 or lip, and the other under the back fin, but I prefer 

 one hook to a bait, with a line fitted as follows : — 



"When I fish for heavy Perch with a floated line, and 

 bait with live Minnows or Shrimps, I fit it up in the 

 following manner. The float should be a cork one, 

 and of a tolerable large size ; the line of choice twist- 

 ed gut from four to six yards long. The hooks I 

 attach to the line are from one to three, and of size 

 No. 6. ; the bottom hook I tie to about nine or ten 

 inches of twisted gut, then loop it to the line above 

 this ; about eighteen inches higher up the line, I place 

 another, which I tie to about three inches and a half 

 of bristle 5 if bristle cannot be got, I then use the 

 strongest gut ; then take a leaden pellet, which is a 

 piece of lead pipe with a hole through it, about half 

 an inch long, and in circumference something larger 

 than the stem of a tobacco-pipe, (these leaden pellets 

 may be purchased at all the principal Fishing-Tackle 

 Shops,) and make a small groove all round the middle 

 of it 3 after which, put the other end of the bristle, to 



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