CHAPTER VIII. 



OF TRIMMERS, AND OF THE MOST MERCIFUL WAT OF SETTING THEM, 

 CONTRASTED WITH THE CRUEL METHOD SAID TO HAVE BEEN 

 USED BY SOME FISHERMEN. 



MANY trollers and snappers are fond now and 

 then of setting trimmers, a name they may well 

 be called by ; for they are often trimmers indeed, 

 not only to the poor unfortunate live baits with 

 which they are often set, but to the equally un- 

 fortunate hooked pike, which, for many hours, 

 even days and nights, are customarily left to swim 

 about with the hooks in their entrails. Of course 

 this cruel method of catching fish would not be 

 countenanced in a work like the present. If a 

 trimmer must be set, let it be watched, at least, 

 not left, but for a short time ; not baited with a 

 live bait, for that is unnecessary. 



If it is at all a biting day (and why fish if it 

 should not be so ?), a fresh killed bait, and imme- 

 diately put on the hook, will be sufficiently inviting 



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