DEAD SNAP. 195 



it, merely because they are become scarce, the hook 

 being generally rejected by all experienced Trollers of 

 the present day, as not worth notice. 



Dead Snap with three Hooks. 



This snap is fitted as follows : — take three hooks of 

 the size No. 2, and tie them altogether, back to back, 

 firmly on one end of about twelve inches of strong 

 gimp ; let the other end be formed in a loop, (see the 

 Cut); then having provided a dead-bait Fish, now 

 take your baiting needle, and hang the loop of the gimp 

 to it ; then enter the point of the needle in the vent of 

 the bait, (but do not penetrate too deep in the body,) 

 and bring it out at its mouth ; draw the gimp after, 

 until the hooks lay at the bait-fish's vent -, now pass 

 over the gimp a bead drop-lead, and place it inside the 

 bait's mouth, which must then be sewed up, and all is 

 ready for fixing to the trolling-line. — Note. This snap 

 should be baited with a large bait-fish either a Roach 

 or Dace, say from six to eight ounces weight, and in 

 extensive pieces of water which contain heavy Pike, 

 especially at the time when the weeds are rotten or 

 gone : this snap, so baited, will be found effective and 

 worthy the Angler's attention. 



