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AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



Tackle for Trolling with the Natural Bait. There 

 is always, to my mind, satisfaction in using the dead natural 

 bait it requires a certain art in adjusting, and the lure is 

 certainly more in keeping with what we know of the food of 

 the quarry. To me, an air of ghastly unreality pervades 

 the gyrations of the glittering spoon. The fish comes up, 

 the victim of morbid suicidal mania, rather than of healthy 

 gormandizing. It is caught by the "giddy pleasure of the eyes, " 

 rather than the promptings of a healthy appetite for food. 



The gangs in ordinary use for trolling the 

 dead fish are wrong in principle, and are 

 the same as have been used in the early 

 days of British angling I specially refer to 

 the three triplet hooks and lip-hook. For 

 these ten hooks I substitute four, and find 

 them amply sufficient. Fig. 40 represents 

 my device, and by practical experiment I 

 find it superior to all others though the 

 "Pennell," and my "Nonpareil" run it close. 

 [These are described later.] 



Fig. 40 may be thus described: A lip-hook 

 is tied on to good fine gimp (A), and two 

 loops of the same material are also tied in 

 (BB). The loose end of the gimp is now 

 turned back and passed through B B and 

 a large single hook (Limerick) is whipped 

 on to it (G) ; above this another is attached 

 as shown (F). The barbed arrangement (E) 

 must now be explained: It consists of two 

 pieces of rather thick sheet-copper or brass, 

 cut and filed into the shape shown. (If of 

 brass it must not be hardened.) A loop is 

 tied into the gimp at D, and the cross-piece 

 E is placed therein as shown. An inch 



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Fig. 40. 



