THE TROUT. 105 



Spinning a Minnow, and Bleak. 



Having found, by long experience, that spinning a 

 Minnow or Bleak is the most killing way of angling 

 for the large or old Trout, in the rivers Thames and 

 Lea, or wherever there are heavy or rapid falls of 

 water wherein Trout are found, I have therefore given, 

 in the following pages, a very full and particular de- 

 scription of the method of fitting tackle and baiting 

 hooks for so desirable a purpose. 



Minnow baited for Spinning, 



Some Anglers use two hooks, when they bait with a 

 Minnow to spin ; others, use only one : I shall de- 

 scribe both methods : — First, with two hooks, prepare 

 your gut, swivels, and hooks, in the following manner : 

 Take about nine inches of strong, single or twisted 

 gut, to which tie a long- shank liook. No. 1 -, about 

 three inches above this hook must be placed another 

 piece of gut, about three inches long, to which you 

 will first tie a hook. No. 8 or 9 j this short piece of 

 gut is then to be fastened to the nine-inch piece, as be- 

 fore directed, about three inches above the hook No. 



