Bait Angling for Common Fishes 



pers and crickets, which should be put on a 

 No. 5 to No. 3 snell hook; grasshoppers 

 should be hooked through the shoulders 

 both they and crickets will live for some 

 time if hooked in the right way. In using a 

 small minnow, hook him through both lips, 

 near the tip of the nose, and on snelled 

 hooks No. i to No. 3. The minnow, if put 

 on alive will swim around till seen by the 

 perch, and it should be placed so that it 

 swims one or two feet from the bottom. 

 When the fish strikes take plenty of time, so 

 that the perch can properly gorge the fish. 

 All fish take the minnow sideways first, then 

 turn it around and swallow it head first, 

 afterward move away that is the time to 

 strike and hook them. It should be done 

 with a sharp, quick turn of the wrist, not 

 a savage pull or long jerk. If the fish is 

 a large one and he wants to play or fight, 

 give him every chance. Perch make two 

 or three runs, swiftly at times, come right 

 up to the surface, then down again, but 

 this happens mostly in running streams; in 



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