372 SALMON AND TROUT. 



In choosing leads for baiting with the loach the thinnest 

 should have the preference, as the little fish has not a very 

 capacious 'gape,' and if the leads are too thick they are apt to 

 split the jaws. The length of the lead will also vary slightly as 

 the bait is longer or shorter ; one inch, ' cap ' included, would 

 be about correct for a loach of 3 inches. For a long slender 

 bait of 3 \ inches, a slightly longer lead say i| in. is desirable. 



Small baits are greatly preferable to large ones in lake- 

 trout spinning; indeed, I think the bait can hardly be too 

 small if it spins really well. 



When the flight above recommended cannot be used, either 

 owing to the baits being too large, or for other reason, the first 

 of the sizes of flights described for pike fishing in the second 

 volume, but dressed a good deal smaller, will answer well. 

 This flight consists of tail and reverse hook (in one piece), body 

 hook, one flying triangle, and a lip hook. The flying triangle, 

 however, should be adjusted so as to hang nearer the bait's 

 tail than for pike fishing, as pike take usually across the head 

 and shoulders, and trout very often, especially when not very 

 keenly on the feed, almost (or quite) by the tail. 



LEAD AND LOOP-SWIVEL (DOUBLE) FOR HEAVY LAKE TROLLING. 



The mode of constructing the trace for this latter tackle is 

 also very similar, substituting, however, gut for gimp three or 

 four yards of it and putting the lead a couple of yards away 

 from the bait The size of the lead must of course vary ac- 

 cording to circumstances. The lead shown in the diagram an- 

 nexed is the best I know of so far as shape is concerned, and 

 where a fixed lead is employed a lead, that is, permanently 

 attached to the trace. Combined with the double swivel figured, 

 it will entirely obviate the spinner's bete noire, ' kinking.' 



