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no. The most aggravating part of the process is when 

 you have waited patiently for the regulation ten minutes 

 very minute seeming ten at least to strike and find 

 that your fish has left you probably some eight minutes 

 and a half or so. Indeed the waiting is a great trial, and 

 it i not a method of pike fishing I hanker after, though 

 in very weedy places it is not only the best but often the 

 only method possible. The worst of it is that you must 

 kill all the fish you hook whether they are big or little ; 

 and you often thus are obliged to kill small undersized fish, 

 which is very objectionable. 



The last method of pike fishing, and perhaps the most 

 killing of all, is angling with the live bait. This may be 

 done with the paternoster, as already described. For this 

 one or at most two hooks are held to be sufficient. The 

 lowest hook should be about a foot above the plummet, 

 and the upper according to the depth of the water, from 

 one foot to eighteen inches above it. Some persons use a 

 stoutish single hook for this purpose, a size or so larger 

 than that used for perch, and of course tied on gimp, the 

 trace or tackle to which the hooks are fastened being of 

 three-ply twisted gut or gimp. I like the former, as being 

 less visible. As regards the hooks, however, instead of 

 single hooks I prefer moderate-sized triangles, as, the 

 pike's mouth being rough and gristly, one hook is apt to 

 give out where two hold firmly. 



One of the best double triangle tackles for live baiting, 

 whether with paternoster or float, is that invented by 

 Mr. Alfred Jardine, one of our most successful pike 

 fishers. He uses two triangles, one to fix on the lip, 

 and the other in the dorsal fin. These triangles are 

 composed of two large hooks, and one small one, the 

 small one projecting about half way down the shanks 



