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and out of the mouth, the lip-hook being carefully manoeuvred 

 through also ; this is then turned and hooked through the lips 

 in the usual way. The first triangle goes into the shoulder, 

 and the last is brought up and hooked in over the tail part of 

 the back, just behind the dorsal fin, the bait being drawn up 

 so as to communicate a bend or crook to the body, and the 

 bend is thus given to the middle of the bait instead of the tail 

 (see Plate V, Fig. 7, p. 78). The flight is then looped on to the 

 trace and is ready for use. It is a simple and effective method ; 

 and a bait thus put on, if it be properly hung, spins very well, 

 and shows enough arming sufficiently disposed over the main 

 parts of the body to hook any fish that runs and takes it fairly. 

 Nottingham fishers more often use a roach for baiting in this 

 way than any other fish, and certainly a roach thus baited 

 spins with even less difficulty than it does when baited on a 

 Thames tackle with the tail crooked as is the custom 

 there. 



Some time since I invented a tackle for Thames trout, which 

 was also made up by the tackle makers for pike. The object 

 of that tackle was to obtain fewer but more effective hooks. 

 It was a modification of Col. Hawker's, or, as Mr. Pennell 

 reminds us, Salter's tackle, with a single instead of double 

 strand of gut, a sliding lip-hook, and no lead cap. If the angler 

 will turn to the chapter on spinning for trout he will find the 

 circumstances relating to that tackle described, and in Plate 

 IX, Fig. 7, page 211, he will find an engraving of the tackle. 

 I originally intended this tackle to be baited by detaching 

 the two portions and baiting the hook with the assistance of a 

 bait needle ; but this process was troublesome and the tackle 

 was abandoned for pike. Lately, however, I have used it in a 

 different manner, and in the way I now employ it it is, either 

 for small trout with minnow bait, or for large ones and pike, 

 with a gudgeon or moderate sized dace, the most effective 

 tackle by far that I have ever used. The way to bait it is to 

 draw the lip-hook and triangle up out of the way. Then put 

 the hook in at the mouth and out at the gills, and in again 

 at the gills down through the body of the fish close to the spine, 

 and out at the side about two-thirds down the body ; draw 

 up the line in the mouth so as to crook or bend the body slightly 

 somewhat in the shape observable in Plate V, Fig. 7, page 78, 

 the big hook coming out of the side just below the lower or end 

 triangle there shown. The lip-hook is then fixed, and the 

 triangle stuck in, either on the near or the off side. I prefer the 



