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if the water is at all coloured. With a similar 

 bait, but not jointed, I caught an eight and 



a quarter pounds Pike, in September 1877, 

 at Datchet. I saw him feeding under some 

 bushes : he refused the natural spinning-bait, 

 but with the artificial I caught him at the 

 third throw. The Fishing Gazette says of 

 this bait, " We think the name is an excellent 

 one, not because Cleopatra's Needle is in 

 everybody's mouth, at this moment, so sug- 

 gestive of what might be in a fish's, but 

 because we have the impression from past 

 reading that the Egyptian charmer was a 

 bright article (in more senses than one), was 

 lithe of body, and 'very taking' in her ways." 

 The " Gregory" is another pattern of a metal 

 bait, but made rigid ; and revolving on a wire, 

 which runs through it from end to end. The 

 shape of the bait and manner of mounting will 



