Fish and Fishing 



hook by a ring, fastened to a four and one-half- 

 foot piano wire; the second style is a thirty-inch 

 phosphor-bronze cable, with end swivels; the 

 third is a thirty-six-inch, hand-plaited, linen snell, 

 wound with copper wire. 



For smaller game the favorite hooks now mostly 

 used in the United States are the sproat, Carlisle, 



Names 



Author's method. 

 Reel-line and casting-line attachments. 



O'Shaughnessy, Aberdeen, Dublin Bend, and 

 Hollow Point Limerick, and the new pattern 

 of Pennell Limerick hooks. With regard 

 to the best bend of hooks opinions are so 

 wide and varied that it would be wearisome to 

 the angler to describe them. Some like the points 

 bent slightly sideways, claiming that it helps the 

 point of the hook to catch in the fish's mouth. 

 Another considers the side bend the worst possible 

 crook given to a fish hook, being both unscientific 

 and impracticable. Personally, I like a slight 

 bend in fly hooks, as well as bait hooks, especially 

 for minnows or worms. The live bait, to my 

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