166 A NEW INVENTION. 



near the tail, and the leaded part of the wire 

 renders the bait sufficiently heavy for casting 

 it the distance and sinking it the depth required. 

 The texture of the bait, receiving additional sup- 

 port from the wire and lead in the bait's interior, 

 is less easily torn in the process of casting or 

 spinning it through the water. The bait is held 

 extended, and cannot be dragged double by the 

 strain of the hooks, which frequently crumples up 

 and spoils a bait, having no such interior support. 

 When you use this leaded wire you need put no 

 additional weight on your swivel-traces. This 

 sort of spinning-tackle I am exceedingly partial 

 to. 



The figure 3 in the cut is a recent and useful 

 invention. It is a piece of wire with an artificial 

 fish-tail affixed to it. The divisions of the tail 

 are turned different ways, like the tail of the assas- 

 sinating Archirnedian minnow, invented by Mr. 

 Frederick Allies, of St. John's, Worcester. In 

 passing through the water, and against it, a tail 

 thus divided and inverted gives the bait a regular 

 rotatory or screw motion, as you draw it towards 

 you. It is partly an artificial and partly a natural 

 bait. I have a good opinion of it. In using it, 

 cut off the tail of the natural bait, and, entering at 

 the cut end the point of the wire, pass it through 

 the body longitudinally, and out at the mouth. 

 The artificial tail now takes the place of the na- 



