A SIMPLE SPINNING TACKLE. 205 



them, especially for minnow-spinning, for trout 

 weighing under two pounds. I can spin a minnow 

 very prettily and very dangerously with a flight 

 of only three hooks, that is, one double hook to 

 remain at the vent, and one single lip-hook. I 

 will use this flight with the apparatus numbered 

 2., or with that marked 3. in the cut. Either 

 of the above apparatus having been passed 

 into the body of the bait, I insert the loop of a 

 link of gut, to which a double minnow-spinning 

 hook is tied, in the eye of a baiting-needle, which 

 I pass in at the vent, and through the stomach of 

 the bait out at the mouth, drawing to the gut, 

 until the double hook, arrested at its bend by the 

 vent, stops there with its double barbs apart and 

 pointing downwards. I take away the baiting- 

 needle, and slipping down on my gut a moveable 

 lip-hook, I pass it through the lips of the bait 

 tightly to make taut the small portion of the gut 

 that is in the interior of the bait, between the vent 

 and the mouth, and I finally fix this gut-link that 

 contains the bait thus armed to my swivel-trace. 

 I have now a bait that swims well, with a double 

 hook projecting on each side beneath the middle 

 part of it, and as fish generally seize their prey 

 by the middle, I do not see why you should 

 not seize them with this double hook, if they 

 once admit it within their mouths. However, 

 as fish very often run short at the spinning- 



