178 GOOD PLAIN SNAP-HOOKS. 



meet by prompt striking the snapping and not 

 the swallowing of pike. 



Captain Williamson says, " At such times they 

 will seize a bait with great seeming eagerness, 

 but for the most part relinquish it instantaneously. 

 When jack are thus shy, the angler must take 

 them at the snap ; that is, he must be quick in 

 striking so soon as the bait is seized. This re- 

 quires a particular apparatus, whereby the fish 

 rarely escapes, under proper management. The 

 snap tackle may consist of a single hook, large 

 and stout, which being fastened to strong gimp is 

 inserted at the mouth of a gudgeon, or other 

 small fish, and brought out either at the middle 

 of its side, or just before the vent. The treble 

 snap is by far the best, being made of three such 

 hooks tied back to back fast together, and secured 

 to a piece of gimp ; which being inserted by means 

 of a baiting needle at the vent, and carried out at 

 the mouth, which is closed by a lip-hook, the 

 three hooks being spread into different directions, 

 it is a thousand to one but the jack is hooked." 



You can make a double snap in the same way. 

 Tie two good-sized hooks back to back ; have a 

 sliding lip-hook on your trace. With a baiting- 

 needle carry the trace in at the vent and out pt 

 the rnouth, and draw until the bend of the hooks 

 are arrested at the vent. Fasten the lips together 

 by inserting through them the lip-hook. This 





