378 PICKEEEL FISHING. 



under the skin of the bait, on the side, and bringing it out at 

 the back fin. Mr. Salter gives the following directions for the 

 double hook-snap, which may be used either with a dead or 

 live bait : 



" ' This snap-hook is a double hook, or two single hooks, 

 No. 6, tied back to back, on gimp ; to bait this snap, use the 

 baiting-needle, having first placed the loop of the gimp to which 

 the hooks are tied in the eye of the needle. Enter the point 

 of the needle just above the gills of the fish, near the back, 

 avoiding to pierce the flesh as much as possible, as it is only 

 intended that the gimp should lie just behind the skin. 

 Bring the needle and the loop of the gimp out near the tail, and 

 draw till the hooks lie close to the part your needle entered, 

 and are some^vhat hid by the gills. The bait will live a long 

 time after being thus hooked, and may be used in fishing with 

 a float, by putting three swan shots on the gimp to keep it 

 down : — always prefer a gudgeon for this baiting. I call this 

 a snap, because, when fishing this way for Jack, I strike imme- 

 diately I perceive a run, and have met great success this way 

 of snap-fishing. This snap may be baited with dead fish, and 

 trolled with.' 



" Although I have quoted this mode of keeping a bait ' a long 

 time alive on the hook,' I by no means recommend the practice 

 to my young brothers of the angle, for I have long confined 

 myself to the use of the dead bait ; and with the gorge-hook, 

 and the snap used in the manner I am about to describe, the 

 Pike-fisher will never want sport in a M^ell-stored water. 



" I have before said, that by spinning the minnow with the 

 same kind of tackle as that used in spinning the bleak for 



