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THE TROLLER S GUIDE. 



Dead Snap with two Hooks. 



Mt this snap in the following manner:— tie two 

 hooks of the size No. 1, very firmly to about twelve 

 inches of stout gimp, which should have a loop at the 

 other end : now take a baiting needle and fix it to the 

 loop of the gimp, and enter the point of the needle into 

 a large dead-bait fish's vent ; but do not penetrate too 

 deep in its body, for when so, and you strike, the hooks 

 are somewhat confined, and do not fix so firmly in Jack 

 or Pike as if they laid nearer the skin, which is torn 

 away with a strong jerk in striking; bring it out at 

 its mouth, and fix the lead in the bait's mouth, and 

 sew the same up, (as described in the preceding article, 

 baiting with three hooks ;) and all is now ready to fas- 

 ten to the trolling line. (See the hooks, and the same 

 baited in the Cut.) 



Now having described various and as many hooks, 

 with the best way to bait them for killing Jack and 



