A SIMPLE SPINNING-TACKLE. 167 



tiiral one, and the wire through the body keeps the 

 bait-fish firm, straight, and in its natural shape. 

 You now insert the flight of hooks exactly as I 

 told you to do, when using the arrow-headed wire. 

 This bait will swim and spin admirably, not be 

 liable to tear : and if the artificial tail be made 

 with care, it will not glaringly disagree with the 

 natural body of the fish. 



As I have already said, I am not partial to 

 a many-hooked spinning-tackle, and I especially 

 dislike them for spinning for trout or other 

 fish weighing under two pounds. I can spin a 

 minnow very prettily and very attractively with 

 a flight of only three hooks that is, one double 

 hook to remain at the vent, and one single lip-hook. 

 I use this flight with the apparatus numbered 2, 

 or with that marked 3 in the cut. Either of the 

 above apparatus having been passed into the body 

 of the bait, I insert the loop of a link of gut, to 

 which a double minnow-hook is tied, in the eye of 

 a baiting-needle, which I pass in at the vent, and 

 through the stomach of the bait, out at the mouth, 

 drawing to the gut until the double hook, arrested 

 at its bend by the vent, stops there with its 

 double barbs apart and pointing downwards. I 

 take away the baiting-needle, and slipping down 

 on my gut a moveable lip-hook, I pass it through 

 the lips of the bait tightly to make taut the small 

 portion of the gut that is in the interior of the 



