50 Spinnmgfor Mdhseer. Chapt. v. 



back ; indeed I sometimes insert the one embedded hook a little 

 further aft than the vent, because the vent is differently placed in 

 different fish, and some require a little more bend to make them 

 spin. The opposition of the water makes the bait hang back on 

 the hook, so as to draw up the tail, and create bend enough to 

 make it spin. 



But there is one objection to this mode of baiting which I will 

 freely admit. If your bait is not the OpItiorijiJiali/s yuchiut, but 

 of a less tough sort, or if from not being quite fresh it is inclined 

 to get rotten, which it will very quickly do in India, then, as the 

 bait softens from being sodden by use in the water, the sinker in 

 the stomach slips down the line, and by its weight breaks a way 

 for itself out of the stomach or vent, and trailing visibly outside 

 your bait spoils its appearance utterly. For such spoiling, 

 too, there is no remedy but a fresh bait, and of these you may not 

 have too many. At any rate you grudge the time lust in changing, 

 especially if the fresh bait is not with you, but with your 

 attendant, who, for better concealment, is not quite at your side. 

 In such case use the sinker outside as in Plate VI, figure 2, placing 

 it a good foot or foot and a half away from the bait. This plan, 

 again, is not without objection, for it is not quite so easy to cast 

 quietly a line that has two separate weights at the end, as a line 

 which has all its weight at one point, the end. So you must make 

 your own choice of comparative advantages and disadvantages. 

 Perhaps the difficulty might be got over by using an outside lead 

 ca ] > over the nose of the bait with a perforation through the centre 

 of the crown for the line, as in minnow spinning for trout. 1 

 never tried it however, and never saw such caps made large 

 enough for a four or five inch bait, and I should fear that they 

 would fray the line. 



But for those who are too idle for baiting after this manner. 

 and have not an attendant trained to do it for them, I have 

 another simpler plan which will do nearly as well though it is not 

 quite so neat. It consists of a treble hook and a lip hook with a 

 looped sinker as before, l'ut the line though the loop or ring of 



the sinker, and let the sinker run down to the lip 1 k. Put 



the sinker thin end foremost into the bait's mouth and half 

 down its throat, close the mouth so as keep it in by passing the 

 lip hook through both lips. Then embed the treble hook into the 



