106 BOTTOM FISHING IN THE NOTTINGHAM STYLE. 



"Pennell" flight is the best. It is chiefly remarkable by having 

 the lower hook or hooks formed like the letter S, it also has 

 a sliding lip hook and one or two flying triangles. This is 

 a very simple arrangement and is a very deadly one. The 

 sliding lip hoop, as you may infer from its name, is made to 

 move up and down the gimp of the flight, purposely to adapt 

 it to any sized bait. A piece of fine wire or gimp is whipped 

 to the side of the hook, so as to leave two loops, one at the 

 end of the shank and the other near the bend of the hook. 

 The ginip of the flight is then put through the loop nearest 

 the bend, and twisted two or three times round the shank, and 

 then passed through the other loop. By loosening the coils 

 of gimp that are round the shank, the lip hook can be 

 shifted up or down to suit the requirements of a large or small 

 bait. The lower hook, as I have said, is like an S, and be- 

 tween this hook and the lip hook there are one or two flying 

 triangles, so called because they hang loose, and are not 

 fastened in the bait at all ; these are on short pieces of gimp, 

 which in turn are whipped firmly to the gimp of the flight. 

 If dace are used as bait, two flying triangles are deemed best, 

 but if gudgeon or bleak are used one is better. To bait this 

 flight, it is best done in the manner described by Mr. Pennell 

 himself; the bottom or tail hook being inserted first : — The 

 point is inserted by the side or lateral line of the bait near to 

 the tail, and passing it under a broadish strip of the skin, 

 and through the end of the fleshy part of the tail, bring it 

 out as near the base of the tail as practicable. Next insert 

 the small reversed hook (the top hook of the S) in such a 

 position as to curve the bait's tail to nearly a right angle ; 

 finally pass the lip hook through both its lips, always putting 

 it through the upper lip first when the bait is a gudgeon, and 

 through the lower one first with all others. This is very 

 important in securing a very brilliant spin." The flying 

 triangles of course hang free. This is a splendid flight, but 



