SPINNING TACKLE. 19 



visible on the flight, so should they be rather 

 small than large. The hooks intended for 

 catching should be either sneck or round, 

 whether as single hooks, or brazed together 

 in the form of triangles. 



I have sometimes found in spinning that I 

 have missed a good fish through the Jack 

 coming short at the bait. No. i is intended 

 to remedy this. It has an extra triangle, 

 mounted on gimp, having a small loop, which 

 is passed down the gimp of the flight you are 

 going to use, before it is fastened to the trace 

 and hangs upon the lip- hook. One hook of 

 this short triangle may be inserted in the other 

 side of the bait, which, when using the first 

 flight mentioned, would be exposed without 

 hooks ; and as Jack always take the bait across, 

 this extra triangle will effectually prevent them 

 tearing the bait off without being themselves 

 hooked, as I have sometimes found them do 

 when fishing without it. I used these fly tri- 

 angles over twenty years since, and am per- 

 suaded that if they were more generally used, 

 fewer fish would be missed with the spinning- 

 bait. They were sketched in my first edition 

 of 1859, and appear to have been appreciated. 

 Nos. 2 and 3 are other varieties, the tail being 

 curved by the end hook, as in No. i. 



No. 4 is a different style of spinning-tackle : 

 the whole of the weight being concealed in 

 the bait, none is therefore required on the 

 trace. It is used with a baiting-needle, thus : 



