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find that I take smaller pike with it than I do 

 with a gudgeon. A small perch, with the fins 

 cut off, is not a bad bait, but the most killing 

 one I know of is, a smelt, it, however, is not 

 always to be had. By fishing with a dead bait, 

 and by instantly killing a fish as soon as it is 

 landed, but little pain is inflicted, and perhaps 

 not more than every animal suffers, in being de- 

 prived of life for the purpose of becoming food 

 for the use of man. I am the more desirous of 

 mentioning this, because there are many per- 

 sons who think that angling and cruelty are 

 synonymous terms. The method I recommend 

 is, I think, infinitely to be preferred to the 

 gorge, snap, or beed-hooks so generally used, 

 and which have been extolled by both ancient 

 and modern writers on angling. Experience 

 alone can prove this." 



A very excellent and amiable young friend 

 of ours endeared to us for his many manly 

 attributes of head and heart Mr. Charles 

 Creswell, of New Lenton, Nottinghamshire, 

 one of the most successful pike and perch 

 fishers that we know, practises the following 

 very simple method. For pike-fishing he 

 makes use of a strong, short rod, with a strong 

 silk line, and large wooden reel, and his bait is 

 a live gudgeon. He merely passes a double 

 pike-hook attached to about a yard of gimp 



