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stances, so unsatisfactory that we are glad to welcome any attempt to improve 

 the apparatus in general use, or to render those sudden partings between in- 

 dividuals connected by the fine line or strong gimp sympathy, which are so 

 distressing to one of the parties concerned, less common than they unfortu- 

 nately are. It is notorious among spinners for pike that no tackle has ever yet 

 been invented from which a very large proportion of fish hooked do not 

 manage by some inscrutable means to effect their escape. We have ourselves 

 noticed this fact, and many of Mr. Pennell's views upon this head, as well as 

 others connected with the art, certainly meet our warm approbation. His 

 remarks regarding kinking, for example, are excellent, and the means he takes 

 to avoid it are apparently all ; that is needed. His plan of employing flying 

 triangles is, to us, original. . . . " Field. Review of " Book of the Pike." 



From the Fishing Gazette. 



" Has your correspondent, the ' Bostorn Bittern,' in his search for an 

 efficient flight for spinning the natural bait, never heard of or seen the ' Pennell ' 

 flight ? If not, let me advise him to give it a trial next season, as I am 

 confident, after trying various others, that there are none to approach it. I 

 have used it now for three seasons, and as to missing 50 per cent, of fish, as he 

 complains of, I will engage that if mounted and used in the manner recom- 

 mended by its inventor (and it can be so procured at several of the London 

 tackle-makers) he will not miss 10 per cent, of the fish with it. It is as superior 

 to the old-fashioned three- triangle flight as sunshine to a rushlight. It gives 

 a most brilliant spin, and I have taken fish with it when all other methods have 

 failed. I get mine from Mr. A. Young, of Oxford Street, and find them well 

 and properly made by him." ROTANS, Bury St. Edmunds. 



LIP-HOOKS. 



To save myself trouble, and to ensure regularity and durability 

 in lip-hooks, I had some made with two loops of metal brazed on 

 to, and forming part of, the hooks. These answered very well, 

 and are now generally used. 



LIP-HOOKS WITH METAL LOOPS. 



