PISH TO BE HOOKED. 29 



carp, elrab, dace, eel, pinnock, grayling, 

 gudgeon, loach, minnow, perch, pike, pope, 

 roach, and rud, salmon, smelts, tench, and 

 trout. 



Trout, it has been said, is "the object of 

 every true angler's ambition/' The hooks used 

 in trout -fishing should be Nos. 9 and 10, tied 

 on a piece of gut, about twelve inches long, 

 with a loop at the end. The form is as follows : 

 " Three hooks together at the end, then one 

 tied in the reverse way, then three the same 

 way as the first, and then one movable, on two 

 small hair loops, in order to suit the size of the 

 bait ; the hooks, which are placed at equal 

 distances from each other, should, when the 

 movable hook is brought as near as possible, 

 be about the length of a small gudgeon or 

 bleak. The mode of putting on the bait is 

 this : Insert one of the end hooks in the bait's 

 tail, which must be slightly bent, and fixed in 

 that position by putting the reversed hook in 

 the side of the bait ; the other hooks must then 

 be fixed at such distances as not to bend the 

 fish, and the sliding hook fastened into the lips 

 of the bait, and kept in its position by a small 

 shot placed between the bait's mouth and the 

 binding of the hook. Great care must be taken 

 to keep the bait straight up to the bend in the 

 tail, as otherwise it will not swim properly A 

 piece of gut, called a trace, must be \ised, 

 having two swivels, one in the middle, and the 

 other at the end ; this is to be affixed to the 

 loop of the gut on which the hooks are 

 bound, and the whole then fastened to the 



