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of the other tackles. There are many other arrangements 

 of hooks, but these are much the best.* 



The directions given for putting a bait on refer to fish 

 such as the dace, gudgeon, or any small fish of such like 

 rounded shape ; with a bleak or roach the method slightly 

 differs. The body of the fish must be set on the hooks, 

 not straight, with a mere crook to the tail, but in some- 

 thing of a bow like the outline of the bowl of a spoon. 

 (See Plato 2, Fig. 3.) The Nottingham spinners get a very 

 good spin out of a roach by means of only two good-sized 

 triangles and a lip hook. They hook the lowest into the 

 back, behind the dorsal fin, give the body a slight bend, 

 then hook the second into the shoulder of the bait, pass 

 the thread of gimp through the gills, and out of the 

 mouth, fix the lip hook, and the bait spins well. 



Of all the artificial aids to spinning there is only one 

 which I think worth notice, and that is the Chapman 

 spinner ; and until Mr. Wood devised his method of 

 arming it, which overcomes the objections to it, I had but 

 a small opinion of that. The Chapman spinner is a piece 

 of brass wire with a lead cast on to it, and a pair of 

 Archimedian fans at the head, and two sets of triangle 

 hooks hanging from either side, but in the original 

 Chapman these were fixed, as was the gimp with which it 

 was attached, to the trace. The wire and lead were thrust 

 down the throat and into the belly of the bait, the upper 

 hooked in either side. The result was that after some 

 little use the hooks worked loose, and the mouth of the 

 bait originally close up to the fan of the apparatus 



* Mr. Wood has also brought out a new arrangement of 

 hooks, which he sets great store by as losing very few fish. It 

 is rather complicated, so I do not attempt to give a cut of it 

 here. It is an excellent tackle, however. 



