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needle is passed through the bait from the vent and 

 out of its mouth, one of the hooks of the large 

 triangle jamming against the vent and there re- 

 maining. A small triangle on an inch and a 

 quarter of gimp is slipped over the hook-gimp and 

 flies loose above the shoulders of the bait, and a 

 sliding lip-hook completes the tackle. 



To bait a spinning flight lay the bait in the 

 palm of the left hand, take the tail-hook by the 

 upper part of bend nearest the barb, and pass the 

 point into the side of the bait about half an inch 

 from the base of the tail, and press the point through 

 the flesh upwards and out again ; or, if the flight 

 has an end triangle, pass one of its hooks barb 

 upwards through the flesh and out again, as close 

 to the tail-fin as is possible. Then insert the 

 " straight-reverse," and push its barb quite through 

 the bait ; or if a small reverse hook, press home the 

 barb, so as to secure or fix the tail part of bait at 

 the curve or angle, which a very little practice will 

 show is the correct one. 



Then having adjusted the lip-hook to the exact 

 length of the bait, pass it through both lips, the 

 upper one first if a gudgeon but the lower lip 

 first with dace and roach. 



The flying triangle is intended to hang free and 

 not to be hooked into the bait ; the shoulder and 

 body of which should hang quite straight when 

 affixed to the flight, the tail portion of the bait 

 only being curved, as shown in the small cuts ; 

 and these instructions being correctly carried out, 

 the bait should spin in a brilliant manner, and look 

 very life-like. 



Another very important element in spinning 

 flights is the shape and make of the treble-hooks, 



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