£i.)2 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



dace, roach, and other fish. Where pike are suspected to 

 haunt, the hook should be fixed to gimp ; as, in this manner 

 of fishing, thej will take the bait as well as the perch. 



Some anglers use minnows, as in the dead snap for pike, 

 with three fine guts twisted together, or a piece of small gimp, 

 to which the hook is tied ; the baiting-needle must be 

 shorter, the wire of it small, and the minnow exactly baited 

 as a dace for pike. By this mode there is a greater certainty 

 of hooking the fish, as all fish of prey seize their food by the 

 middle ; when the hooks are thus placed, they are more sure 

 than the common method with a largo hook, and a smaller 

 above it. The way of using the latter is, to a hook Ko. 3, 

 tie a link of gut or fine gimp ; at about three-quarters of an 

 inch above it, tie a hook No. 9, this should be one of those 

 called lip-hooks, adapted to the sole purpose of keeping the 

 minnow in its proper position. Join this link, which should 

 be eight inches long, to another, by a small swivel closed at 

 the ends, fastening a small lead weight (shaped like that di- 

 rected to be used in the dead- snap for pike) about an r ch 

 above the swivel ; these swivels are to be fastened to the 

 links with fine double silk, well waxed, and the end of the 

 upper link formed into a noose, to ^x it to the line. The 

 point of the large hook is to be put in at the shoulder of the 

 minnow, and down as far as the bend of the hook will permit, 

 bringing the point out so that the tail may be a little curved 

 with the bend of the hook, which will cause it to spin better ; 

 fasten the head with the small hook, by running it through 

 the middle of the bottom, and out at the top of the upper 

 jaw. The only recommendation to this plan, is the readiness 

 of baiting the minnow^ ; the other being unquestionably the 

 best for hooking the fish which bite at it. Other baits for 

 perch are loaches, sticklebacks with the spines cut ofij mil- 

 lerVthumbs, and horse-beans, boiled. 



