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from the fact of the hooks standing out at right angles to the bait, 

 instead of lying partly on one side, as is the case with the triplet hooks." 

 Fig. 45 is the same as Stewart's pattern. 



Thns " Walton H.," and I have no doubt that the tackle he calls the 

 "Walton H. " (Fig. 43), is a genuinely effective piece of apparatus if 

 dressed as suggested. " Walton H." must not, however, suppose he is 

 the inventor, for, if I mistake not, Sir Humphrey Davy's " Salmonia" 

 contains a cut of its prototype; certainly Jesse's "Angler's Eambles" 

 does so. 



The foregoing remarks, as well as those that follow, it may here be 

 said, are supplementary, and in some instances corrective of the section 

 on Minnow Spinning, which commences on page 263. As this work has 

 been written in small sections and produced at various times, the writer 

 has had opportunities, ere its conclusion, to verify, and in some cases 

 modify, the opinions expressed in earlier chapters. 



Reference is made on p. 266 to the fan tail. The passage begins as 

 follows : " The tackle used for fan tail is of the same character," &c. By 

 an unobserved printer's error, the paragraph is so much nonsense. The 

 word "fan" there employed should be "par," or "parr," a fish, it will 

 be seen, which is treated upon at p. 173, as being simply a young salmon. 

 A mis-statement, I find, has also crept into the passage referred to. The 

 parr tackle is not identical in principle with Stewart's, as will be seen by 

 what follows. The directions for making the tackle for spinning a 

 par tail are thus given in " Facts and Useful Hints relating to Fishing 

 and Shooting," published at the Field office, 346, Strand. Take a piece 

 of stout sheet brass or German silver and make it of the shape of A 

 (Fig. 46), barbing the sides of the centre piece with a fine chisel ; turn 

 one wing up and the other down as B ; put on the flight of hooks as 

 shown in C ; then take a parr's tail, cut as in D, cutting off the 

 fins and tail as shown by the dotted lines ; if a minnow is used make a 

 cut down through the gills as at E. Put the pointed barb in at the 

 cut in the parr or at the mouth of the minnow, and push it down towards 

 the tail, covering all but the two wings. Then make the bait fast by 

 sewing it on, passing the thread through the holes A, B, crossing them 

 as shown in F. Then take the flight of hooks, lay one down on one 

 side of the bait and the other on the other ; pass a thread through the 

 tail over the centre fin and shank of the opposite hook, return it and tie 

 it; this keeps all close and secured. Were the flight of hooks left 

 loose, they would fly out and prevent the bait spinning. The two double 

 hooks at the heads of C and F are left loose, and stand out in spinning 

 as there shown. 



I find on referring to what has been written on the Brown Trout that 



