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remember that the curve ought to be mostly in the 

 tail. Usually the flight is made up with an 

 adjustable lip-hook, which can be moved up and 

 down the gut to fit the size of the bait, and is then 

 fixed by having the gut wound round it two or 

 three times and then caught up in a half-open eye. 

 I do not much like this arrangement, because, 

 though it is convenient, it frays and weakens the 

 gut very much. I now generally use a lip-hook tied 

 on like the triangles and adjusted at the other end 

 that is to say, if the bait is too big for the tackle, 

 I put the end triangle in rather further from the 

 tail ; if it is too small, I do not put it in at all, 

 but begin with the second triangle. For smaller 

 baits one can have the same tackle made up with 

 two triangles, and for minnows with only one. I 

 do not say that this form of tackle is the best, but 

 it is, on the whole, the simplest, and it will do for 

 a beginning. Later the novice may discover that 

 he prefers something else, and then he can discard 

 it. 



Another kind of flight is, however, worth mention- 

 ing at this stage, the kind on which the bait is made 

 to revolve by means of a pair of metal fans and 

 not by a curve in its body. There are several kinds 

 of fan-flight, all possessing merit, and the novice 

 would perhaps do well to get a couple of, let us 



