72 HAWKER'S TACKLE. 



pounds weight, with the spinning-bait. Large 

 Barbel will also occasionally take a spinning- 

 bait beneath the foam, and the eddies and 

 corners of the weirs should be carefully spun 

 for Perch. 



The Water-witch, mentioned on page 20, 

 mounted on gut, to carry a minnow or small 

 gudgeon, will be found a first-rate Trout 

 tackle. 



There is another spinning tackle, known as 

 " Hawker's Tackle," it is in this form : a 

 large and fine minnow trolling hook, No. i 

 size, is whipped to a length of gut ; about half 

 an inch, or rather more, from the end of the 

 shank of this is whipped a lip-hook, size No. 8 ; 

 and to the lip-hook and length of gut is also 

 fastened a short piece of gut of sufficient length 

 to reach to the end of the large hook. A small 

 triangle is now whipped to the end of the short 

 piece, and the tackle is completed by looping 

 the long gut. 



To bait it, the point of the large hook is in- 

 serted in the mouth of a large, bright minnow, 

 which is now to be threaded up the hook, the 

 point of which is to be brought out at the 

 centre of the tail. The minnow is now to 

 be pressed into natural form on the hook with 

 the thumb and finger ; the small lip-hook is 

 run through both lips, and the bait is com- 

 pleted for use by sliding down the gut a 

 small hollow lead cap, of a sugarloaf shape, 

 which fits close on the nose of the minnow. 



