HooKing' the Trcmt 103 



that had a fl/ and leader (my first cast) dangling from 

 its mouth, the gear he broke away with a few minutes 

 before his actual capture. 



There is no need of subjecting fishes to any pain in 

 angling. Hook them in the lips, and kill them the 

 very second they are taken from the water. Letting 

 them die slowly not only pains the captured fishes, but 

 injures them as food. 



Be a sportsman in angling as well as in hunting. 

 The chivalric gunner, unlike the market shooter, does 

 not pot his quail huddled stationary on the ground ; he 

 gallantly takes it on the wing gives it a fair chance. 

 So the Angler, unlike the trade fisher, gives his game 

 fair play. I catch quite my share of many species of 

 fishes, but I only rarely suffer them to swallow the 

 bait, and this by accident. Even pickerel and fluke 

 (plaice) can be abundantly taken by being hooked in 

 the lips. I never allow the pickerel or the black bass 

 to swallow the bait; I hook them in the lip as I hook 

 my trout on the wing, as it were. 



