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THE GORGE-HOOK. 



ceding modes of taking fish with fish-baits, though 

 I have placed them under the head of trolling, do 

 not embrace pure trolling. To troll, you must 

 cast your bait with a coiled line to any distance 

 you propose, and then by drawing your line in 

 with the left hand, a certain portion at each draw, 

 you cause your bait to troll generally towards you 

 beneath ,the water. The rolling or rotatory 

 motion of your bait in the water attracts fish to 

 it; they run ,at it, swallow or gorge it, and then 

 you strike, play, and kill them. Quite the con- 

 trary, however, may happen, to your great annoy- 

 ance. As it is by trolling with the gorge-hook 

 that the largest pike are killed, I must be me- 

 thodical and minute on the subject. Underneath 

 is the figure of the common gorge-hook, and 

 above it is a hook baited, both taken from Elaine's 

 great Sporting Encyclopaedia. 



Generally the hook is formed of two single eel- 

 hooks, placed back to back, and joined together 

 with a continuation from their shanks of a piece 



