CHAPTER XII 

 WITH LIVE BAIT AND FLOAT 



Different methods of live baiting Pike floats and pilots Traces 

 and leads Snap tackles ancient and modern Snap - fishing 

 down a stream Snap-fishing in a lake Deep or shallow fishing 

 Gorge tackle and its use. 



EVE baiting for pike can be divided into four heads, 

 or rather sections, two of them practised with one 

 or more floats, and the other two without any floats at all. 

 No practical advantage will be gained if I go at length into 

 this part of my subject, so I will content myself with two 

 very brief chapters. 



Putting it briefly, the four heads may be described as 

 follows : First, snap tackle and an egg-shaped float, with 

 a smaller float two feet away, and these so arranged that 

 the live bait swims at any depth the angler pleases ; and 

 the snaps are hooks which allow the pike to be snapped 

 or hooked the moment he seizes the bait. Second, with 

 similar floats, but the hook is a double one threaded under 

 the skin of the bait, so that in this case a pike must swallow 

 it before it can be hooked. Third, with a paternoster 

 and no float, but a lead sinker at the extreme end, and 

 snap hooks at intervals above this lead. Fourth, with 

 a leger at the bottom of deep holes ; in this case the bait 

 is below the lead, and either semi-snap or semi-gorge tackle 

 is used. 



Snap-fishing with float tackle is the plan now universally 

 followed by anglers, that is, in waters fairly open, and is a 



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