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the cut (the cork used for a wine bottle does very well 

 after the edges are pared round the top and bottom) and 

 bait with a live fish, which should swim about a foot or 

 two from the ground. When you use the rod, fig. 1. 

 hold the line with your left hand, and with your right pass 

 the forked part under the line just above the bullet. 



How to take Jack and Pike with Hook, 

 Bladder or Bottle. 



Jack and Pike are also taken in lakes and other large 

 pieces of water, by baiting with a full sized Dace, Gud- 

 geon or a Roach, nearly half-a-pound weight is best; 

 use strong snap hooks, with two lengths of gimp, and two 

 swivels, which must be fastened to about a yard of the 

 stoutest plaited silk trolling line ; then tie the line very 

 secure to the neck of a large bladder, and launch it in the 

 water with a brisk wind ; if the fish are on the feed, you 

 will soon perceive the water agitated in the most violent 

 manner, and after an amusing and violent struggle, the 

 bladder will kill the heaviest Pike, provided your hooks 

 and tackle are good. In Ramsey Meer, Huntingdonshire, 

 there is an annual exhibition, called a bottle race, and 

 often much betting on the event of which bottle kills a 

 Pike first ; the baits and hooks are managed in the same 

 manner as with a bladder, the bottle (a wine bottle) is 

 used in place of a bladder ; the line is tied round the neck. 

 When several are so prepared, they are ranged in a row^ 



