16 THE TROLLER'S GUIDE. 



CHAP. IV. 

 Snap Fishing, and how to bait the Hooks. 



Dead Snap with two or Four Hooks. 



Take about twelve inches of stout gimp, make a loop 

 at one end, at the other end tie a hook, size No. 2, and 

 about an inch further up the gimp tie another hook of the 

 same size ; procure a drop-bead lead, which the fishing- 

 tackle shops keep fixed to a small ring or two ; now tr> 

 bait the hooks proceed as follows, put the loop of the gimp 

 under the gill of a dead bait fish, and bring it out at its 

 mouth, draw the gimp till the hook at the bottom comes 

 just behind the back fin of the bait, and the point and 

 barb pierces slightly through the skin of it, to keep the 

 hook steady, then pass the ring of the drop-bead lead 

 over the loop of the gimp, and fix the lead inside the 



