CHAPTER Y. 



DEAD-BAIT FI8HING f Continued;. 



Trolling with the Bead Gorge — Improved Adjustable Gorge- 

 hooTc — Trolling with Snap-tachle — Fly-fishing. 



N the last chapter I divided fishing with 

 dead-baits for jack into fishing with spin- 

 ning baits and fishing with baits which 

 do not spin. We now come to the second 

 class, which is popularly called trolling 

 with the dead gorge ; and I shall also have 

 something to say regarding a new trolling 

 tackle, in which the objectionable features 

 of the old method — the gorging, which involves the death of 

 every pike hooked, large or small — is entirely done away with. 



Trolling tackle is simple in the extreme. The only essentials, 

 in addition to rod and line, are the hook and a baiting-needle. 

 The old form, or, rather, a modification of the old form, of hook, 

 devised by Mr. Pennell, is shown in Fig. 46. It should be 

 mounted on 3ft. or 4ft. of fine, patent, stained gimp, with a loop 

 at the end, to which the running line (rather fine than other- 

 wise, and of dressed, plaited silk) is fastened by the knot shown 

 on page 37. The hook is baited as follows : Fasten the loop at 

 the end of the gimp to a baiting-needle (see page 49). Take a 

 medium-sized bait — a gudgeon is as good as any, unless the 

 water is much coloured, when a brighter bait is preferable — put 

 the point of the needle in at its mouth, and bring it out exactly 

 in the fork of the tail. Pull the gimp right through the bait. 



