TEOUT FISHING WITH BAIT. 9S 



avoid needless cruelty, but as long as there is any life in 

 the bait it will probably interfere with its spinning. If 

 you throw the minnow smartly on the hard ground death 

 is instantaneous. 



Some one of the various methods of using a live bait 

 for pike and perch may be applied to a trout. A pater- 

 noster or a float which latter should be a fragment of 

 cork sufficient to carry the bait. Not more than one hook 

 should be used, and this set a little below midwater (a 

 small triangle perhaps is better than a single hook). Hook 

 the bait through the lip, as it lives longer and is more 

 lively thus. Minnows, small gudgeons, or dace are the 

 best live baits. 



