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CHAPTER XV. 



TROLLING WITH THE DEAD GORGE BAIT. 



Tackle and hooks — New gorge leads described ; improved mode of 

 fastening tail of bait ; trace for gorge baiting. Working the gorge 

 bait — How to distinguish a ' run' j management whilst gorging. 

 Best gorge baits. 



As the only dead-bait Snap-tackle of any value to the 

 angler is that used in Spinning, so the only dead-bait 

 Gorge-tackle which can be similarly described is that 

 employed in the method of Pike-fishing commonly 

 known as " Trolling." 



Tackle : Hooks. 



Although Trolling is by no means so exciting or 

 artistic a mode of fishing as spinning — and all gorge- 

 tackle should on general considerations be avoided as 

 far as practicable — yet it is often an exceeding useful 

 adjunct in the Pike-fisher's vade incaim, as he may not 

 unfrequently meet with waters so weedy, or overrun 

 with bushes or stumps, that a spinning-bait cannot by 

 possibility be worked. The gorge-bait is then in its 

 legitimate province — a province to which I confess I, for 

 one, should be disposed to confine it. 



