FISHING TACKLE AND HOW TO MAKE IT. 



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in at the mouth and out at the tail, the double hooks lying 

 by the side of the bait's head, just under the eyes. This bait 

 is not drawn through the water, as the spoon or dead gang- 

 bait is drawn; but, after casting, it is manipulated with a 

 sink-and-draw motion, and when the angler has a "strike," 

 he lowers the point of the rod, and gives five minutes or so 

 for pouching or "gorging." He then reels in does not strike 

 and the hooks penetrate the gullet of the fish. 



Fig. 47- 



An improvement on this hook is shown at fig. 48. The 

 body of the affair is made of linked leads or sinkers, and the 

 hook itself is adjustable, so that no matter what size the bait 

 is, the angler has only to add to or take away from the leads, 



Fig. 48. 



and alter the size of the hook, to suit the bait. With fig. 47 



this is impossible. A fresh hook must be substituted each 



and every time. 



Tackle for Live-minnow Fishing. The ordinary single 



hook, hooked through the lip or under the back fin, generally 



suffices the rough-and-ready angler. But the observant 



angler notices that only a comparatively small percentage of 



fish are hooked when they are "coming short" or not biting 

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