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your fish. To use the double hook, you must 

 enter your baiting-needle just under the skin 

 of your bait, beginning near the side fin, and 

 bringing it out in the middle of the back, or 

 dorsal fin, and having the gimp of your hook 

 looped on it, draw it through until the hook is 

 fixed in the side of the bait, with the points 

 outwards. Do it quickly and carefully, for of 

 all things we do in angling, we love that 

 operation the least ! When you live-bait in 

 this way, you must not strike as soon as the 

 jack runs off with the bait, but let him go 

 with it wherever he likes, giving him a quarter 

 of an hour to pouch it. When you fish for 

 jack in this way, never let your double hook 

 be too large, for it stands out on the side of 

 the bait, and is a great objection, seeing that 

 the jack always seizes it across, and has to 

 turn it in his mouth before he pouches. And 

 there is no necessity at all to have them large, as 

 the smallest size sold is quite large enough to 

 hold the largest fish you may take, for when once 

 fastened in the pouch, it will never come out 

 until it is pulled back. The next particular 

 hook used is the gorge, which is made ex- 

 pressly for the dead bait, or trolling. You 

 should have several of them, and always one 



