Bait Angling for Common Fishes 



hook is effective. I have caught perch on 

 the brown palmer, coachman and silver 

 doctor. 



In England and France they have a 

 method of fishing for perch not practiced 

 here. It is called " pater-nostering," which 

 simply consists in the use of a line of gut 

 about four or five feet long, at the end of 

 which is a sinker to keep it on the bottom ; 

 about six or eight inches above this is fast- 

 ened a hook on some six inches of gut, a 

 foot above this another hook is fixed on, and 

 a foot above that again a third. This third 

 hook is often a gimp hook, where pickerel 

 and perch are found in common, so that if 

 the pickerel should come to the bait there 

 may be a fair chance of capturing him. A 

 minnow being hooked through the lips on 

 each of the other hooks, the tackle is 

 dropped in an eddy where perch are sup- 

 posed to be, and the three baits swim round 

 and round the main line, so that no matter 

 whether the fish are resting at the bottom 

 or reaching for their prey in midwater, they 



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