Fish and Fishing 



plaited raw silk, braided hard and close, and 

 tinted, or part colored. Longest casts are made 

 on the finest lines, but for very large bass, size G 

 or No. 5 may be used; fifty yards is the usual 

 length. Dr. Henshall's choice of a bass hook is 

 the sproat, O'Shaughnessy, and round bend Car- 

 lisle, the most suitable sizes being Nos. 1 and 2. 

 Hooks should be tied on gut snells, but when 

 pickerel or pike abound, gimp snells may be used. 

 Pike and pickerel both readily take the same bait. 



Ready for the overhand cast. Position of rod when bait strikes the water. 



The latest method of bait casting for bass. 



live or artificial, as the bass. Where the fish live 

 together it is not unlikely to get strikes from 

 them. Henshall says, "The reel must be placed 



underneath the rod, on a line with the 

 th^^ast gui<^cs; the reel then being underneath, 



the line is rove through the guides, and 

 a box-swivel tied on the end ; to the other ring of 

 the swivel is looped the snell of the hook. The 

 hook is then passed through the lips of a minnow 

 from two to four inches long. If a sinker be re- 

 quired in addition to the swivel, it should be 

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