74 TROLLING. 



cork float. Live bait fishing is a very enticing- 

 way for Jack and Pike, and certainly more fish 

 are killed this way than by any other means, 

 (the gorge hook excepted), but the fish generally 

 are not so heavy as with the gorge. The most 

 proper time for live bait fishing is from Novem- 

 ber till March. 



SPUING SNAP FISHING. 



SPRING SNAP Fishing is neither so scientific 

 or so sportsman- like a way of fishing for Jack 

 or Pike as the gorge or live bait; it is still 

 much followed, but certainly does not aiford so 



