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tie, with holes made in the side : change 

 your water often, which will keep them 

 alive a long while. 



There are other ways of taking Pike which 

 do not strictly come under the head of ang- 

 ling ; but being so enormous a depredator, 

 I think too many means of destroying him 

 cannot be marked out; for do all you can 

 there will still be too many of them left. 



I shall now describe a ledger-bait, which 

 is fixed to a certain place, and may be 

 left whilst you angle for other fish : it 

 is best to have your baits alive; stick the 

 hook through the upper lip, or back fin, if it 

 be a fish, if a frog, put the arming-wire in at 

 his mouth and out at his gill, and tie the leg 

 above the upper joint to the wire ; the yel- 

 lowest frogs you can get are always the best ; 

 fasten your wire or gimp to a strong line, 

 fifteen or sixteen yards long, the other end 

 to a stake made fast in the ground, or the 

 stump of a tree, near the Pike's haunt ; then 



