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CHAPTER XVI, 
LIVE-BAIT FISHING. 
Snap live=bait tackle—Defective tackles; essentials of a perfect flight. 
New pattern described; mode of baiting. Floats; new system of 
floats). Minnow needles: Trace described. Baits, and how to 
catch; bait-can. How and where to use the live bait. Live gorge 
bait. 
LIVE-BAIT FISHING. 
Snap Live Bait. 
A GREAT variety of patterns of live-bait tackle are given 
by various authors ; some of them tolerably good, others 
(and they are the majority) execrably bad—whilst a few 
are simply impossibilities, as no live bait could survive 
their application more than a few minutes. A good 
example of the last, termed the “ Bead hook” will be 
found in F. T. Salter’s “ Anglers Guide and Complete 
Practical Treatise, &c.,” 2nd edition, temp. 1815. 
A really efficient live-bait snap-tackle, and one 
which has been extensively used for many years by 
Pike-fishers on the Thames—having been the inven- 
tion, I believe, of one of the best and most popular 
fishermen on its banks*—is figured in Otter’s “Modern 
_ * H.R. Francis, Esq., M.A., author of the “ Fly-Fisher and his 
Library.” i sf 
