214 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
live bait, and especially the gorge live bait, is generally 
more killing, all the year round, than any other 
method of fishing; and there are some rivers, and 
large lakes too, though they are comparatively rare, 
in which Pike will not take freely anything except a 
bait that is alive. These waters of course make their 
own rules, 
Under usual circumstances and in ordinary rivers the 
period when the live bait is most killing is after the fish 
have been swept by the first winter floods into the eddies 
and deeps, and where the water is full and slightly dis- 
coloured. 
The “spring snap-hook” is a perfectly useless con- 
trivance. 
The “ Paternoster” will be described under the head 
of Perch-fishing. 
Live-gorge Bait. 
The Live-gorge bait may be used in all the places and 
under the various circumstances referred to as being most 
suitable for snap live-bait. The rules as regards time for 
pouching, &c., are the same as* those given under the head 
of ‘Trolling with the dead-gorge bait,’ and the tackle 
(float and trace) is identical with that recommended for 
live-bait snap fishing, in everything except the hook and 
the mode of baiting. 
These are so simple that an explanatory diagram is 
superfluous :—Instead of the flight used with the snap 
live bait, the hooks consist of a common double or single 
