TACKLE FOR SPINNING AKD TROLLING. 



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My arrangement of lip hook can be adapted to both the patterns 

 shown in Figs. 40 and 41, which, when dressed on fine gut, are good in 

 their way. Of course, as the reader is aware, the method of baiting is 

 to pass the large hook down the throat and out of the tail of the minnow. 

 This bends the tail and produces a spin. 



There can be no doubt that both these patterns are very useful in their 

 way, as I before observed, but it is equally certain that when backed 

 against the improved flight, Fig. 39, they lose out of time. Fig. 42 

 shows Fig. 41 baited, and one can of course see at a glance the extraor- 



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FIG. 40. ORDINARY 

 MINNOW FLIGHT. 



FIG. 41. MINNOW FLIGHT 

 AND TRACE. 



FIG. 42. MINNOW FLIGHT 

 BAITED. 



dinary distortion of the bait as compared with Fig 38. And, moreover, 

 this distortion increases as the minnow becomes soft in the water, which 

 appearance, of course, can by no means be considered conducive to 

 increase of sport. 



The chief excellency of the tackle is its ready manufacture. One 

 can sit down by the water side, and with his waxed silk and a few old 

 fly hooks, if no others be handy, rig up a flight in a quarter of an hour 

 after the pattern of either Fig. 40 or Fig. 41. When fishing with it, I 



