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TROLLING. 



then draw the gimp up till the bottom hook comes just 

 behind the back fin, and the point and back pierce 

 slightly through the skin. To keep it steady, pass the 

 ring of the drop-bead lead over the loop of the gimp, 

 and fix the lead inside the mouth, which must be 

 sewn up. 



It is hardly necessary to say that this is a dead-bait. 



2. A treble snap, which is a good live-bait one, may 

 be made by tying two hooks of No. 3 size, each to a 

 piece of twisted wire, about an 

 inch and a quarter in length. Then 

 take a No. 8 hook, and about ten 

 inches of gimp ; put one end of the 

 gimp to the wires that the two 

 hooks are tied to, lay the small 

 hook on the wire and gimp, and 

 tie the whole tightly together, so 

 placing the large hooks that one 

 shall point towards the head of the , 

 bait, and the other towards the tail. 

 To put the bait on this, run the 

 small hook through the flesh, just under the back fin, 

 and let the two large hooks hang one on each side. 



There are, as I have said, many other snap hooks;* 

 amongst them, a spring snap, which opens when the fish 

 is hooked; but it is unnecessary to describe them here. 



It is to be observed, that in snap-fishing, the bait 

 should be larger than for gorge-hooks ; and that 

 when the bait is a live one, it should be put on the last 

 thing, and be so carefully treated as not to be injured 

 or weakened. 



* I am indebted to an angler of much celebrity for the snap- 

 hooks given in page 145. 



