CHAPTER, XV, 
TROLLING WITH THE DEAD GORGE BAIT. 
Tackle and hooks—New gorge leads described; improved mode of 
fastening tail of bait; trace for gorge baiting. Working the gorge 
bait—How to distinguish a ‘run’; management whilst gorging. 
Best gorge baits. 
As the only dead-bait Snap-tackle of any value to the 
angler is that used in Spinning, so the only dead-bait 
Gorge-tackle which can be similarly described is that 
employed in the method of Pike-fishing commonly 
known as “ Trolling.” 
TACKLE: HOOKS. 
Although Trolling is by no means so exciting or 
artistic a mode of fishing as spinning—and all gorge- 
tackie should on general considerations be avoided as 
far as practicable—yet it is often an exceeding useful 
adjunct in the Pike-fisher’s vade mecum, as he may not 
unfrequently meet with waters so weedy, or overrun 
with bushes or stumps, that a spinning-bait cannot by 
possibility be worked. The gorge-bait is then in its 
legitimate province—a province to which I confess I, for 
one, should be disposed to confine it. 
