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Curiously enough the tackle I have been describing very 

 nearly fulfils them all when its mode of attachment to the bait 

 is changed from the lip and back 



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either to the back and flank, vide 

 engraving, or to the back and 

 pectoral fin, (position shown in 

 miniature live-bait, illustrating 

 Mr. Jardine's tackle, p. 169, but 

 the top hook inserted further 

 back, quite behind the dorsal fin, 

 in fact). This shifts the bait 

 from perpendicular to horizontal, 

 or, better, with head pointing 

 rather downwards. 



In the tackle itself, the only 

 change is the brazing on of the 

 small hook, a (vide cut), to the 

 two large ones laterally instead 

 of in the ordinary position. The 

 adjustable back hook, which is 

 intended to pass through the 

 back, under, or behind, the in- 

 sertion of the dorsal fin, l>, can 

 easily be moved up and down on 

 the line in the same way that a 

 lip hook is moved on a spinning 

 flight, by pushing the gimp up- 

 wards or downwards through the 

 metal loops, c c, and tightening the coils from the opposite end. 

 The back hook, b, having been attached, the small lateral hook, 

 a, is now inserted under a small strip of the outer side-skin, so 

 as to keep the double hooks in their proper position close to the 

 side of the bait, as shown in the miniature diagram above ; or 

 else under the insertion of the pectoral fin as described. If 

 the small hook were not brazed on laterally, the large double 

 hooks, d d, would stand further away from the bait and would 



SNAP LIVE-BAIT TACKLE. 



