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any sort of humidity, hinders it from tangling 

 when coiled loosely on the ground, and 

 preserves to it that rigidity which is necessary 

 to make it slip freely and rapidly through the 

 rings during the operation of throwing. The 

 reel is a simple Irish click one, of rather large 

 dimensions being remarkably deep, but not 

 wide, and rather stiff in its play. A rod, line, 

 and reel of this description is fit for every 

 mode of trolling whether for trout, pike, or 

 salmon*. 



The usual methods of placing the minnow on 

 the hook are by far too complicated. The one 

 we are about to explain is not only free from 

 any such objection, but is extremely neat and 

 simple. Three hooks (size, No. 7, Redditch) 

 long in the shank, and pointed at its end, are 

 to be soldered back to back, so as to form a 

 hook of triple bend and barb. Those hooks are 

 to be of bright steel that is, they are to be 

 chosen before they undergo the process that 

 turns them blue. They are to be whipped on a 

 looped link of gut, of fine and strong quality, of 

 the length of about twelve inches. The loop of 

 this gut is placed in the eye.of a darning-needle; 



* Mr. Dashwood informs us, that in his piscatory excur- 

 sions in Scotland, he is extremely successful in taking 

 salmon, trolling for them as he does here for trout, except, 

 that instead of the minnow he uses a young herring, of four 

 or five inches long, for a bait. 



