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the back fin of the bait, and the point and barb pierces 

 slightly through the skin of it j to keep the hook 

 steady, then pass the ring of the drop -bead lead over 

 the loop of the gimp, and fix the lead inside the bait- 

 fish's mouth, and sew the mouth up, fsee the Cut, J and 

 all is ready to fasten to the trolling line. If you add 

 two more hooks to the two already described, you will 

 then have a very killing snap 3 to fit which, take a 

 piece of stout gimp, about four inches long, and make 

 a small loop at one end, and then tie two hooks of the 

 same size and in the same manner as the first two j 

 after the first two and the lead are in their places, and 

 before the bait's mouth is sewed up, pass the loop of 

 the short piece of gimp under the gill and out of 

 the mouth of the bait, and draw till the hooks are 

 in the same situation on that side as the other j 

 now pass the loop of thie long piece of gimp through 

 the loop of the short one, and draw all straight ; tie 

 the two pieces of gimp together close to the bait's 

 mouth, and sew that up 5 or you may tie the short piece 

 of gimp to the long one instead of having a loop at 

 the end. fSee the Cut of four hooks. J If you do so, you 

 must pass the hooks first through the bait-fish's mouth 

 and out at the gills, instead of in at the gills and out 

 of the mouth ; then slightly fix them through the. 

 bait's skin just to keep them in their places j and when 

 you feel a bite and strike, they clear themselves and 

 hook firmly into the Jack or Pike 3 or, if you wish to 

 increase the strength of your tackle, tie the second 

 two hooks to a piece of gimp of the same length as 



