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MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 



live bait, and especially the gorge live bait, is generally 

 more killing, all the year round, than any other 

 method of fishing ; and there are some rivers, and 

 large lakes too, though they are comparatively rare, 

 in which Pike will not take freely anything except a 

 bait that is alive. These waters of course make their 

 own rules. 



Under usual circumstances and in ordinary rivers the 

 period when the live bait is most killing is after the fish 

 have been swept by the first winter floods into the eddies 

 and deeps, and where the water is full and slightly dis- 

 coloured. 



The "spring snap-hook" is a perfectly useless con- 

 trivance. 



The " Paternoster" will be described under the head 

 of Perch-fishing. 



Live-gorge Bait. 



The Live-gorge bait may be used in all the places and 

 under the various circumstances referred to as being most 

 suitable for snap live-bait. The rules as regards time for 

 pouching, &c., are the same as those given under the head 

 of * Trolling with the dead-gorge bait,' and the tackle 

 (float and trace) is identical with that recommended for 

 live-bait snap fishing, in everything except the hook and 

 the mode of baiting. 



These are so simple that an explanatory diagram is 

 superfluous : — Instead of the flight used with the snap 

 live bait, the hooks consist of a common double or single 



