ON LIVE-BAIT PISHING. 71 



sportsman like as well as the most killing way of fishing 

 for Jack or Pike ; yet at a certain season of the year the 

 angler will find it more profitable to use a live-bait than a 

 dead, (which I shall notice when I give an opinion on 

 Live-Bait Fishing) but to take the whole season for Jack 

 and Pike Fishing, I firmly believe, he who confines himself 

 to trolling with the gorge, will kill twice the number or 

 weight of Jack and Pike than he who for the whole season, 

 fishes only with a live-bait. 



Fishing for Jack with a live-bait, and a cork float on 

 the line, is certainly an enticing way, but I do not con- 

 sider it so successful as trolling with, the gorge-hook, 

 neither have I ever killed such heavy fish by this method 

 of live-bait fishing as with the gorge-bait; yet I know 

 from practice, that more Jack and Pike may be killed by 

 angling for them with a live-bait and a floated line, than 

 any other way except trolling with the gorge hook; and 

 the little labour or exertion required to take Jack and Pike 

 by this mode of fishing, is. doubtless the cause of many 

 preferring it, as it allows them frequent opportunities of 

 resting when they reach a clear still place, either in rivers or 

 ponds, with the pleasure of observing their float dance about 

 by the live-bait sailing too and fro, which certainly does have 

 the effect of drawing the Jack or Pike to the bait ; but they 

 often blow, drop, or throw it out of their mouths again, from 

 the gimp or hook touching them when shifting the bait to 

 pouch it, this frequently occurs when the bait is hooked 



