382 SALMON AND TROUT. 



invisible, and where, moreover, it both puts the weight exactly 

 where it will do its maximum of work, and, at the same time, 

 assists materially in producing the 'spin.' The same flight 

 can, of course, be used minus the lead, but the spin is some- 

 what less brilliant, and apt on occasions to become irregular. 

 Moreover, it is a rare and altogether exceptional circumstance 

 to meet with water deep enough for trolling at all, which is 

 too shoal to admit of this small lead being used, not 

 only without any practical inconvenience, but with distinct 

 advantage. 



The lead should be attached by a link of stout gut of the 

 same thickness, in fact, as the rest of the flight and lapped on 

 to the lip -hook, inside. 



Since bringing out the foregoing flight, however, I have 

 found that the ' Dee ' minnow flight enlarged (fig. i, opposite) 

 makes an even better flight than that last described (p. 381), 

 because whilst giving quite as brilliant a spin, the triangles 

 are less liable to get out of their proper position, whilst the 

 trace and upper triangle being inside instead of outside 

 the bait causes the latter to last longer. Fig. 2, p. 3823, 

 gives the same flight with an ordinary under-hung lead of 

 my pattern, and without the belly lead or Swivel-Compeller. 



The nuisance of having to detach the flight from the trace 

 when baiting with either of the foregoing or following flights I 

 have almost entirely got over for practical purposes by making 

 the baiting-needle a part of 'the trace itself (zs> shown). 



This Trace baiting-needle, which I have had registered for 

 my own protection and that of the public, is manufactured by 

 Messrs. Wm. Bartleet & Sons, Redditch, who are now supply- 

 ing the retail tackle shops. 



Possibly the single-triangle flights, figs. 3 and 4, pp. 3820 

 and 3820, which seem to be first rate for pike-spinning, will be 

 found all that are really required in spinning for salmon, but as 

 I never like to advocate anything which I have not myself 

 thoroughly tested in practice I will do no more than suggest 

 to salmon-spinners the desirability of giving them a trial. 



