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The boiling eddy see him try. 

 Then dashing from the current high. 

 Till watchful eye and cautious hand 

 Have led his wasted strength to land." 



In angling for salmon with a minnow a small 

 trout or brandling may be used for the same pur- 

 pose it is necessary to use a long-shanked hook, 

 which is to be passed in at the mouth and brought 

 out between the vent and the tail ; and, to prevent 

 the bait slipping down this hook, a small hook, 

 whipped on a piece of fine gut about three inches 

 long, is to be attached to the link and passed 

 through the minnow's lips. To facilitate the spin- 

 ning of the minnow, it is usual to employ two 

 swivels, one at the junction of your first and second 

 length of gut, and the other at the junction of the 

 second and third ; with a shot, greater or smaller 

 according to the strength of the current, placed on 

 the gut, immediately above each swivel, to keep the 

 minnow down in the water. In spinning a minnow, 

 the foot-length, of gut, is generally about three 

 yards long. Some anglers use a conical piece of lead, 

 with a hole at the apex, for the gut to pass through, 

 which they slide down over the minnow's nose; 

 but this method has not any advantage over the 

 simpler one of placing shot above the swivels. The 

 manner of using this bait is to cast it across the 

 stream, and, as you draw it towards you, to keep 

 it playing by a slight motion of the rod. 



