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back fin, taking care that it does not enter too deep 

 and so kill the fish. The double hook, which may 

 be obtained forged on one shank, at the tackle- 

 maker's, or formed by tying two single hooks back 

 to back, requires to be fixed by a baiting-needle. 

 Hooking the needle through the loop of the gimp, 

 pass it under the skin, a little behind the gills and 

 above the pectoral fin; and bring it out at the poste- 

 rior extremity of the back fin; draw the gimp 

 through till the shank of the hooks is entered and 

 the points lie flat, on what is called the shoulder of 

 the fish. Though. this is not so simple a mode of 

 using the live-bait as either of the former, and 

 though the bait sooner dies, some anglers consider 

 that it affords a greater chance of hooking pike, 

 which always swallow the bait with the head fore- 

 most. In fishing with the live bait in any of the 

 above modes, the pike is to be allowed time to 

 pouch the bait, as in trolling with the dead gorge. 



In snap-fishing, whether using a live or dead bait, 

 the angler strikes directly he feels the fish pull; and 

 it is this, with the number of hooks used to render 

 it effective, which constitutes the difference between 

 snap-fishing and the other two modes, trolling 

 and live-bait fishing, previously described. A most 

 effective snap is that with four hooks, described 

 at p. 160, in treating of lake-fishing for large trout. 

 A double snap hook, to be used with a live bait, 

 may be made as follows. Whip to a foot? of gimp 





