456 THE PRACTICAL FISHERMAN. 



which are given by Mr. Hewett Wheatley. I have borrowed the illus- 

 trations which accompany them, and as I prefer to quote that writer's 

 own description of his baits to paraphrasing it without due acknowledg- 

 ment, as several authors have done, I give his explanation in extenso. 



" A piece of thin brass wire is doubled, 



J having a small eye for the admission of 



FIG. 74. the gu t (Fig. 74). This wire is passed 



through a piece of lead, varying in length from one to two inches, and 

 so pressed upon the wire as to prevent it from turning round, the wire 

 being left half an inch beyond the lead at the tail end, the lead ex- 

 tending at the other, or head end, close to 

 the loop, formed by doubling the wire 

 FlG - 75. (Fig. 75). Now bend the lead 



into the shape of Fig. 76. A small triple hook having been 

 previously tied to a short piece of thick gut, one end of this 

 stout gut is next passed through the eye of the wire, and the 

 end to which the hook is not attached is tied down upon 

 the lead, working the silk from head to tail, leaving the 

 hook so as that, when all shall^be finished, it may be near the 

 tail end. The bend of the hook may be a little lower, but 

 not the points. Take one length of green worsted, not 

 very dark, and one length two shades lighter; tie the ends of these 

 on the wire, close to where the lead terminates, at the tail of the 

 grub. Make one warp with these two lengths of worsted towards the 

 head. Bend over that warp the half inch of wire which extended beyond 

 the tail and press it close to the head. Go on winding the worsted over 

 the lead, taking care not to twist it till you reach the end near the head. 

 Fasten it, and in so doing warp in a strand from the peacock's tail 

 feather, or from the black ostrich. During this operation the hook has 

 been bent away from the body, to allow you to wind on the worsted. 

 Press back the gut so that the hook shall lie near the tail of the bait, 

 and secure it in that position by a few turns of the silk. 

 Wind the peacock's or ostrich's tail over these turns four 

 or five times, so as to form a head. Fasten all, and you 

 will have the most killing grub ever introduced into a 

 stream. 



" Fig. 77 is similar to Fig. 76, but made on a large 

 single hook. Put on lead in a mould on the shank of the 

 hook. In binding on the worsted, warp in a piece of toler- 

 ably thick netting silk, a rather pale yellow, waxed with 

 white wax, or dark brown silk instead of yellow. Having 

 FIG. 77. woun d on the body, as directed for Fig. 76, next, with the 



