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CHAPTER XVI. 



LIVE-BAIT FISHING. 



Sjiap /i've-bait tackle — Defective tackles ; essentials of a perfect flight. 

 Neiv pattern described; mode of baiting. Floats; new system of 

 floats. Minnow needles : Trace described. Baits, and how to 

 catch ; bait-can. Ho~lV and ivhere to use the li've bait. Live gorge 

 bait. 



Live-Bait Fishing. 



Snap Live Bait. 



A GREAT variety of patterns of live-bait tackle are given 

 by various authors ; some of them tolerably good, others 

 (and they are the majority) execrably bad — whilst a few 

 are simply impossibilities, as no live bait could survive 

 their application more than a few minutes. A good 

 example of the last, termed the " Bead hook " will be 

 found in F. T. Salter's " Angler's Guide and Complete 

 Practical Treatise, &c.," 2nd edition, te7up. 1815. 



A really efficient live-bait snap-tackle, and one 

 which has been extensively used for many years by 

 Pike-fishers on the Thames — having been the inven- 

 tion, I believe, of one of the best and most popular 

 fishermen on its banks^ — is figured in Otter's " Modern 



* H. R. Francis, Esq., M.A., author of the "Fly-Fisher and his 



Library." 



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