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yield to the fish; but on the contrary, the young angler 

 redoubles his efforts to drag the unwilling fish on shore; 

 but he frequently by using such improper force, either 

 breaks his tackle or draws the pouch out of the Jack or 

 Pike's stomach, and of course, in either case, loses his 

 prize. If you fish with one hook fixed to the bait's gills, 

 in the manner described in Chap. III. Fig. 1. you must 

 pursue the same method as described in respect to giving 

 the Jack or Pike time to pouch the bait when you have a 

 run ; but if you use a single hook, or three or five hooks, 

 as described in Chap. III. Fig. 1. 3. and 4, you then fish 

 at snap, and instead of giving time to pouch, when you see 

 your float taken down, by a Jack or Pike having seized your 

 live bait, observe which way he goes, and after he has run a 

 yard or so of line out, strike him with a lusty stroke, 

 that some of the hooks may get a firm hold, then play, 

 kill and land him, secundum artem. Note. When fish- 

 ing with those one, three or five hooks, just described, 

 you may fix the necessary weight of shot or lead on the 

 -gimp to which the hooks are tied, if you prefer it to 

 putting them on the traces or trolling line, because you 

 put on and off those hooks to the traces or line, the gimp 

 not passing under the skin of the bait fish, as must be 

 done when the hooks are threadled or lay on the side or 

 shoulder of the bait, as represented in the cut, Fig. 2, 

 Chap. III. for if the gimp is leaded and drawn under the 

 bait's skin, it rips nearly all of the bait, which is much 

 disfigured and soon dies. 



