210 COLONEL HAWKER'S TACKLE DESCRIBED. 



chance whatever. The great advantage of it is, 

 that it takes the trout when they run and bite 

 short, by means of fly-hooks that play round the 

 others on a separate branch of line, so that I have 

 often killed three or four brace of trout without 

 the minnow being in the least injured, or even 

 touched by the fish. To describe the tackle pro- 

 perly, without giving a plate of it, would be 

 difficult if not impossible." The cut in the pre- 

 ceding page must be examined by placing it 

 horizontally before you. 



Colonel Hawker describes this tackle thus : - 

 " A large minnow-trolling hook, size No. 1., is 

 whipped to the shortest link of gut, and to the 

 other a triangle of three No. 7. hooks, tied back 

 to back, which are to hang about three inches 

 below the larger one : when the minnow is on it, 

 a second triangle, whipped to the same gut, should 

 hang even with the side of the bait. These links 

 altogether form a harness, which is to be attached 

 to the line with a small box-swivel between them. 

 The perforated snout-lead is, however, first put 

 on. Having selected a white-bellied minnow, of 

 rather small size, and hardening it in bran for an 

 hour or two, first draw back the plummet, and 

 put the large hook into the minnow's mouth and 

 out through the right gill, taking care not to tear 

 any part of the mouth of the bait : then draw the 

 line three or four inches to you, so as to be able 



