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ON MINNOW AND PARR-TAIL FISHING. 



of hooks to be employed in it, great difference of opi- 

 nion exists. Some contend in favour of many, some of 

 few, hooks ; some prefer large ones, some small, while 

 others advise the use of both conjoined. I shall not, 

 however, perplex the reader with arguments for and 

 against one and all of the sorts of minnow-tackles in 

 vogue. My duty is to submit to him the most approved 

 models, and this I do, in the confidence that, if an 

 angler at all, he will be able to recognise their merits, 

 and allow them the superiority they claim over a whole 

 armoury of crude and fanciful contrivances, palmed off 

 on the public, under the title in question. 



The simplest and most killing form of minnow-tackle 

 I am acquainted with, is that delineated in figure No. 

 1, and consists of two hooks, Nos. 12 & 10, tied on, 

 as represented. This is the tackle in its medium size, 



