212 Min now-Fishing. 



used in trolling for pike, and consists of two hooks 

 (Nos. 4, 5, or 6, according to the size of the 

 bait) tied back to back at one end of a gut- 

 cast of some two yards long, fitted with a 

 loop at the other. This loop is passed 

 through a spring swivel, fastened to the 

 hair-line. If you have not the ordinary 

 baiting-needle at hand, you can make one 

 easily enough. Take a darning - needle, 

 attach it to the loop by means of a thread, 

 and entering the point at the mouth of the 

 minnow, slip it up to the tail, and run the 

 bait on the gut until the hooks are left pro- 

 truding slightly on each side of the mouth. 

 Eemove the needle and fix the loop on the 

 swivel. A small piece of steel sharpened 

 to a point at one end, and notched with a 

 file near the other, in order to carry the 

 loop makes a good baiting apparatus, and 

 requires no thread; but a crochet-needle, 

 if pointed at the plain end, is the readiest 

 means of any. This tackle ought to be 

 leaded more or less according to the strength 

 of the current and the depth of water ; and 

 the sinkers are put on the line a little 

 above the swivel, which is added not be- 

 cause we wish the minnow to spin, but 



for convenience in baiting. Fish down-stream in 



