194 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 



served. This is important to insure a good spin. The 

 flying triangle for the large sized bait described should 

 be a No. lO or ii, the link to which it is at- 

 tached being of stout gut-gimp as already- 

 described, and the total length of gimp and 

 triangle about 2^ inches (diagram an- 

 nexed). This makes the flying triangle hang 

 at the right place, by and below the shoulder 

 of the bait. The gimp should be finished oft 

 with a small loop of about the size repre- 

 sented. The flying triangle is fastened to 

 the bait as follows : — The skin having been 

 cut off about I J inches from the flesh, and 

 turned down and sewn in the manner directed 

 at p. 1 68, make a small slit in the turned down 

 skin near the middle of the side of the artificial head : 

 pass the loop end of the gimp upwards through this 

 hole, under the turned down skin, and bring it out 

 through another small hole made at the " nose" of the 

 bait close to the main link of the flight ; the main 

 link should then be passed through the loop of the 

 triangle, and the latter drawn down again to its proper 

 position. 



This bait has the great advantage of being able to be 

 used salted. Instead of becoming soft and flabby as 

 other baits do when "pickled," the Eel on the contrary 

 grows tougher, and if placed in plenty of coarse, dry salt, 

 either in a jar or other receptacle, will keep, within my 



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