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I fancied when I first made and used one, that it might be 

 improved on a trifle. The bait spun well, but there was such 

 a long distance between the bottom hook and the lip hook, 

 and nothing to hold the gimp to the side of the bait, which 

 would often buckle in the middle, and cause the gimp to 

 stand away from the bait in an awkward manner. I there- 

 fore had a smallish hook, and whipped it on the gimp the 

 reverse way to the lip hook, somewhere between the two 

 triangles, and then stuck it well in the side of the bait. I 

 found that it acted well. Another kind of flight and one 

 that is more used on the Trent than any other, is made 

 with two or three fixed triangles and the sliding lip hook. 

 These triangles are all whipped tight to the gimp, and 

 just above the bottom one there is a single hook whipped 

 on the reverse way. To bait this flight, take the bait 

 and put one of the hooks of the bottom triangle into the 

 flesh of the tail, bringing the point out on the same side ; 

 draw up the tail so as to bend it well, and then put the 

 reversed hook in to keep it bent, next insert one of the 

 hooks of the second triangle in the side, and then one of 

 the third triangle in the side near to the shoulder; and 

 lastly put or slide the lip hook dow^n to the mouth of the 

 bait and put it through both lips. The three triangles should 

 be straight by each other along the side of the bait, and no 

 loose gimp between them, or the bait will not spin so well. 

 All sorts of flights are made that the ingenuity of man can 

 suggest, or his hands form for the destruction of the jack ; 

 but the two described will be found entirely sufficient for the 

 angler's purpose. I may just mention two more contrivances, 

 however, that have been brought out for spinning with dead 

 bait ; one is Mr. Gregory's *' Archimedean" spinning tackle ; 

 it is thrust in the mouth and down the belly of the bait ; 

 the tail requires no bend as the fans at the mouth of the 

 bait causes the spin. The other is a contrivance brought 



