192 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
served. This is important to insure a good spin. The 
flying triangle for the large sized bait described should 
be a No. 1o or I1, the link to which it is at- 
tached being of stout gut-gimp as already 
described, and the total length of gimp and 
triangle about 24 inches (diagram an- 
nexed). This makes the flying triangle hang 
at the right place, by and below the shoulder 
of the bait. The gimp should be finished off 
with a small loop of about the size repre- 
sented. The flying triangle is fastened to 
the bait as follows:—The skin having been 
cut off about 14 inches from the flesh, and 
turned down and sewn in the manner directed 
at p. 168, make a small slit in the turned down 
skin near the middle of the side of the artificial head: 
pass the loop end of the gimp upwards through this 
hole, under the turned down skin, and bring it out 
through another small hole made at the “nose” of the 
bait close to the main link of the flight; the main 
link should then be passed through the loop of the 
triangle, and the latter drawn down again io its proper 
position. 
This bait has the great advantage of being able to be 
used salted. Instead of becoming soft and flabby as 
other baits do when “pickled,” the Eel on the contrary 
grows tougher, and if placed in plenty of coarse, dry salt, 
either in a jar or other receptacle, will keep, within my 
