54 THE TROTTER'S GTIJITE. 



with a little salt, as well as with bran, and thought it kept 

 them longer, and in a better state for use. 



When you are trolling with the gorge, you will find 

 that either Jack or Pike will sometimes take your bait 

 eagerly, and hold it several minutes by its body across 

 their mouth (see the cut below) and then throw, drop, 



or blow it from them instead of pouching it ; you possibly 

 try another kind of bait and cast in again, you have a run, 

 but you are disappointed, the Jack or Pike will not pouch 

 the bait, but drops it; when this occurs, you may be 

 assured the fish are more on the play than on the feed ; 

 this being the case, convert your gorge to a snap, in 

 the manner directed in chap. IV. the dead snap with four 

 hooks, and you will generally succeed in taking or killing 

 the tantalizer. 



Note. Among my trolling tackle I always carry with 

 me two or three pieces of stick about three inches long, to 

 use as a gag when I have hooked either Jack or Pike in 

 the throat, I can then easily get my hook away without 

 cutting or disfiguring the Jack or Pike, (supposing the 

 hook to be a favorite one, and I prefer using it to any 



