SNAP HOOKS. 



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Dead Snap with Two Hooks. 





Fit this snap in the following manner; tie two hooks of 

 the size No. 1 very firmly to about twelve inches of stout 

 gimp, which should have a loop at the other end ; now 

 take a baiting needle and fix it to the loop of the gimp, and 

 enter the point of the needle into a large dead-bait fish's 

 vent, (but do not penetrate too deep in its body, for when 

 so and you strike, the hooks are somewhat confined and 

 do not fix so firmly in Jack or Pike as if they laid nearer 

 the skin, which is torn away with a strong jerk in striking) 

 and bring it out at its mouth ; now fix the lead in the 

 bait's mouth and sew the same up (as described in the 

 preceding article, baiting with three hooks) and all is now 

 ready to fasten to the trolling line. (See the hooks, and 

 the same baited in the cut.) 



