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or six inches up, with fine tinsel, before you tie on the hooks, 

 so as to prevent the Pike's teeth coming in contact with the 

 gut. Let your hooks be small, say No. 8. There is another 

 tackle made for spinning the Minnow, which I think is prefer- 

 able to the above. It is made thus : Take two lengths of gut 

 as before, put the two swivels and lead on the top gut, and 

 tinsel five or six inches of the lower, next the hooks. Make a 

 noose at the top end of the gut large enough to allow the Minnow 

 to pass through ; tie a single hook on, say No. 1, and take a baiting 

 needle and fix it to the noose, then put the needle in at the end 

 of the tail on one side, and bring it out at the mouth, drawing 

 the shank of the hook inside of the bait, and causing the bend 

 of the hook to bend the tail ; put the noose through the swivel, 

 and the Minnow through the noose, and draw up. This, in my 

 opinion, is the best tackle for spinning the Minnow with. You 

 must strike as soon as you feel a run. You will require a quill 

 float on your line in fishing with the live Minnow. A large 

 turkey or swan quill float without cork is the best. Your 

 tackle must be made of two strong guts joined together, tinsel 

 at the bottom, and a small lead in the middle. No swivels are 

 required. A single hook, No. 2, put in at the mouth will do; 

 or you may use a No. 2 hook with a small one, No. 9, tied to 

 it, and put under the back fin. When you get a run with this 

 tackle, half a minute is quite sufficient to give the fish before 

 striking. Fish with the live Minnow for Pike in the game 

 places as I have recommended fishing with the live Dace. 



