72 FISHING TACKLE 



is often used to advantage, or similar baits can be 

 bought covered with soleskin and painted in blue and 

 silver. 



Live-bait fishing with gorge tackle is to be depre- 

 cated and is seldom resorted to by anglers who fish 



SAND EEL FOR SEA FISHING. 



as sportsmen. Apart from the cruelty in mounting 

 the live minnow, which is so injured that if returned 

 to the water it will certainly die, the greatest objec- 

 tion to it is in pike fishing, for the pike swallows the 

 bait whole and is generally hooked in the stomach, 

 causing extreme pain, so that the fish can give no 

 sport, but is usually hauled up like a log. 



But the snap tackle method is both sportsmanlike 

 and humane. The Improved Jardine, "Perfect" and 



" PERFECT " SNAP TACKLE FOR LIVE BAIT. 



" Bickerdyke " snap tackles are the most easily 

 adjusted, and the live bait lives longer on them than 

 on most other patterns. 



Tackles and mounts not infrequently become frayed 

 at the silk wrapping owing to the bait chafing or by 



