'330 IMPLEMENTS OP SALMON FISHING. 



fire, or in an oven at a low heat, and then potted down and 

 covered with melted lard or suet in earthen pots, is a most 

 murderous bait both for Trout or Salmon. When a few weeks 

 old it will cut out of the pots like stiff cheese, and will adhere 

 readily to the hook, though it is not amiss to bind it on with a 

 slip of Salmon-coloured floss silk. This will be found as 

 effective for Brook Trout as for Salmon; and it is not unworthy 

 of remark that the roe of the milter will most surely take the 

 female, and that of the spawner the male fish. It has been 

 hence suggested that if people will fish on the spawning beds 

 when the fish are in the act of breeding, by using the female 

 spawn or roe, they will do much less mischief than by any 

 other mode, though it is little probable that the gothic savages 

 who resort to these practices at all will trouble themselves so 

 far as even to endeavour to do a minimum of mischief. 



Lastly, the Minnow, the Shiner, the Smelt, the Sparling or 

 Atherine, and above all, the young Parr, are very killing baits, 

 especially when there is a freshet in the stream for the Salmon, 

 upon spinning-tackle. 



A powerful long rod should be used for this mode of fishing ; 

 the line and reel as before, but there should be at least two 

 swivels on the line, and a small funnel-shaped piece of lead 

 sliding upon the line. 



There should be one large No. 1 Limerick hook at the end 

 of the gut, and two smaller, about 10 and 5, tied back to back 

 of the larger one. The smallest above, at the full length of the 

 bait, to hook into the lip, when the funnel will slide down upon 

 the nose. The second hook should be passed through the back 

 below the first dorsal fin, and the large hook entered in the 



