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have killed as many as three pike with the same bait 

 with this tackle ; and you may use the most delicate 

 bait with it, such as the smelt, which, with common 

 trolling-tackle, is soon bruised and spoiled. You 

 should have some lead on your line for this bait, about 

 a yard and a half above the bait \ the weight of your 

 lead to be according to the water you fish, and you 

 should have with you leads of various weights. 



You will find the tackle plate 6, fig. A, equally 

 good ; but this will not require any lead on the line, 

 as the upper part of the barbed spear is leaded : but, 

 with this tackle, your bait will not last so long, and it 

 is not so well adapted for tender baits as the other. If 

 you wish to catch large pike, use large baits. 



To bait this tackle, put the spear into the mouth 

 of your dead bait, and run it down the inside of the 

 bait, until the nose comes up to the staple where the 

 swivel is attached ; then run a bit of thread through 

 the nose and lips, and tie it to the staple, and lay the 

 hooks along the sides, as in fig. E, plate 5. 



In making either of the foregoing tackle, you will 

 find it a good plan to have a pattern, in paper, of the 

 exact size of your bait, and then you will be enabled 

 to judge correctly how long the gimp upon which the 



