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greatest boon, however, for which spinners are indebted to Mr. Pennell, is the 

 complete cure of ' kinking,' accomplished by his mode of fastening the lead. " 

 JACK KETCH. 



" A friend of mine, Colonel Villiers, is in raptures with the killing tenden- 

 cies of your pike tackle, and tells me he has discarded all others. From my 

 limited experience, I fully endorse his opinion ; it is deadly indeed, proving 

 fatal in about five times out of six, or perhaps rather more. " From W. PEARD, 

 Author" of "A Year of Liberty," " Fish-farming," &c. 



" The remedy proposed to obviate kinking, pleases me very much, the 

 said kinking having been invariably my bugbear. I have discarded line after 

 line all to no purpose, but I feel satisfied that you have found a remedy for this 

 hitherto bete noire of anglers. The perusal of the ' Book of the Pike ' has 

 completely revolutionised my faith in my own tackle." RICHARD B. AUSTIN. 



"I gave this tackle a severe trial a short time since ; I tried it with a bleak. 

 Now a bleak is always a difficult bait to make spin well, it is very apt indeed 

 to get out of spinning and is so soft that the slightest touch dislodges the 

 hooks and throws it out, so that it often will not spin properly ; and this 

 reluctance with the aggravation natural in spinning baits, somehow always 

 occurs just at the very moment when you want your bait to spin its best. The 

 bleak I had, too, came from a spot where some hot water is discharged, and 

 this always makes them much softer than their fellows. Added to this they 

 were in spawning condition, and in even a worse state still than ordinary. 

 Nevertheless, in spite of all these adverse circumstances ; I spun a bleak with Mr. 

 PennelPs tackle for more than two hours. I was fishing long cast, and two or 

 three times it fouled the bottom and took hold of twigs and rubbish, yet it 

 never once got out of spinning for an instant, but spun on to the last as well as 

 it did when I put it on. With the ordinary three-triangle tackle, the bait 

 would have been out of spinning and the centre triangle loose in ten minutes, 

 and in ten minutes more the bait would have been useless." ANGLING 

 EDITOR, Field. 



" Mr. Pennell's plan of hanging the lead is glorious for pike-fishing." 

 H.B. 



" Mr. Pennell's new and improved style of fixing the lead on a spinning 

 trace to prevent the line from twisting will prove the best thing that ever 

 happened to pike-fishers who fish from a reel. He is quite right, it is a perfect 

 cure for all kinking. The gentlemen whom I have supplied with the tackle are 

 much pleased with it, and tell their friends it is the best idea ever invented 

 and I think so too. I have frequently been perfectly stuck fast from the line 

 twisting, and have been obliged to take it all off the reel and draw it behind 

 me through a field before I could start again ; but, thanks to Mr. Pennell, that 

 sort of work is now all over." WM. BAILY, Nottingham. 



"Spinning for pike is an accomplishment so very widely practised by 

 modern anglers, and the means hitherto adopted are, from a variety of circum- 



