30 FLY-FISHING. 



The instant a pike seizes your bait, you may strike, 

 and play him according to his size and strength. You 

 can trail your line along the ground when you move 

 from one place to another. 



The tackle, fig. 2, is made thus. Get a brass 

 ring, large enough to go over about an inch of the 

 nose of your fish, (fig. A) : this ring may be either 

 circular or oval, as you please. Now get a piece of 

 stout brass wire (fig. B), and attach it securely to the 

 ring; but be careful, first, to put the swivel, fig. C, 

 on this wire at the point G ; then whip your gimp 

 trace, fig. D, on to the other end of this swivel, and 

 the swivel at the other end of your trace will loop on 

 to the large loop of your trolling-liue. Next take 

 three pieces of gimp, of unequal lengths, and whip 

 them securely on to the ring A, at equal distances ; 

 then whip your hooks on to these three pieces of gimp, 

 as in fig. 2 : the longest piece of gimp should be a lit- 

 tle longer than your bait. The size of the hooks and 

 the length of your bait must depend entirely upon the 

 water you fish ; I use the largest sized Limerick sal- 

 mon-hooks for the tail-hooks, where the fish run large, 

 and the other hooks smaller : but the smallest hooks 

 should be made of very stout wire. You should also 



