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should have at least two swivels on its trace, that 

 part of it within ten inches of the bait being 

 moderately leaded. 



Now examine figure 2 in the cut. It is a 

 piece of flat brass-wire, arrow-shaped at one 

 end, leaded and looped at the other. Give it a 

 small sharp bend near the arrow-head, and pass 

 that head in at the mouth of the bait, and down 

 through the middle of the body to the tail, but 

 not out at it. The leaded portion of the wire, if 

 the whole is properly placed in and adapted to the 

 bait, will lie in its belly, and the exterior of the 

 looped portion will lie even with the lips of the 

 bait. Take your flight of hooks now, and, leaving 

 your last treble one ' fly,' or not inserted in the 

 bait, but projecting a little beyond the tail, insert 

 your downwards-pointed single hook in the side of 

 the bait between the vent and the tail, not straining 

 or dragging any part of your bait ; and then insert 

 one of the middle treble hooks in the neighbour- 

 hood of the vent above it, and your first treble 

 hook, on the left side of the cut, insert near the 

 back-fin; then finish by inserting the lip-hook 

 through, first, one lip of the bait, then through 

 the loop of the wire, and lastly through the other 

 lip of the bait. A moment's consideration will 

 show the reader the advantages of a baiting appa- 

 ratus of this kind. The wire, bent and passed as 

 directed, keeps the bait stiff and sufficiently bent 



