BAITS 



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BAND BAIT WITH 

 EYED HOOKS 



' Sarcelle ' of the ' Field,' and is a 

 very successful combination of the 

 baby spinner and the band bait. Its 

 chief use is for shoal bass which are 

 feeding close to the surface. The 

 illustration, by the way, is not a true 

 and original Sarcelle, but an improved 

 edition, made by a friend whose kind 

 suggestions I have already gratefully 

 acknowledged. 



Anybody can make a band bait 

 for themselves in five minutes with 

 two hooks (if eyed so much the bet- 

 ter), a piece of gut, and a couple of 

 indiarubber bands ; the illustration 

 shows so clearly how the thing is 

 done that it requires no written de- 

 scription. 



The baby spinner, of which 

 Messrs. C. & R. Brooks, of Plymouth, 

 claim to be the inventors, is a very 

 valuable little addition to the natural 

 bait, placed above a single hook ; it 

 spins on the gut and rests on a single 

 glass bead. It does not wear the 

 round gut as might be supposed, but 

 for fish of any size it is certainly de- 

 sirable to use gimp in connection 



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