PERCH-FISHING. 



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sink and draw will, in fact, often be found a most killing 

 method of spinning for perch under all circumstances. With 

 regard to the natural bait, although I have often caught large 

 perch with the gudgeon, and sometimes even with small dace, 

 when pike-spinning, the best bait will be found to be a good- 

 sized minnow ; and of methods of flights for spinning it, one 



FIG. I. MINNOW-SPINNING FLIGHT 

 FOR PEKCH. 



or other of those described under the head of trout-fishing, in 

 the first volume. If it is intended to make long casts with 

 the minnow bait, or to trail it behind a boat, a lead and swivel, 

 such as described for pike-spinning, page 83, must be added 

 between the minnow and the running line, to prevent kinking. 

 In the last two cases the bait should not be spun too rapidly, 

 as the perch has not got the same dash and clan in pursuit of 



