106 SALMON FISHING 



leaded spike carefully into the body, and set it 

 to a nice curve. With a piece of fine silver 

 wire, tie down and form the head over the spike, 

 at the same time tie in the gut, and push spike 

 on first set of trebles home, then secure it with 

 one or two turns of wire and fasten off. Take 

 a turn round each of the other trebles, tying 

 neatly off, and all is ready. 



The range of bait - carriers here given, em- 

 bracing as they do, the fast spin as in the 

 "Crocodile," the slow spin as in the "Dee," the 

 spin and wobble as in the " H.B. Dee," or the 

 wobble pure and simple, as with the " Wobbler/' 

 admits all shades of opinion being accommo- 

 dated, and the vexed question of spin, wobble, 

 or a combination, is left to the individual taste 

 of the angler. 



It is our impression, that a salmon will rarely 

 follow a bait which is travelling very fast, nor 

 will he take one which has not sufficient move- 

 ment to be attractive and disguise the hooks. 

 We once saw an angler kill four salmon on a 

 battered old gudgeon, which had seen service 

 the previous day. After landing the first fish, 

 this bait was accidentally trodden upon, and yet 

 after being mended up, it killed three more 

 fish. At the finish, there was really more wire 

 than gudgeon. Such a bait would not have 

 been used, but on this occasion it happened that 



