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minnow (say No. 3), and three double hooks 

 (No. 8) tied back to back ; the first pair tied 

 up the gut from the point of the large hook 

 the length of a minnow allowing one of 

 the upper pair of hooks to go through the 

 head of the minnow, and one of the second 

 pair to go in at the dorsal fin, arid one of 

 the third pair to go into the middle of the 

 tail at right angles to it. I kept six minnow 

 tackles, some of them of different sizes, and 

 some of them made of small gimp which I 

 used where pikes were numerous, and some 

 smaller ones for clear water or for smaller 

 minnows. My minnow tackle had a loop 

 to put on the catch hold on the casting line, 

 about four inches long down to the swivel, 

 with two lengths of small, strong, clear gut 

 below the swivel, making in all a length of 

 two and a half feet down to the hooks. I 

 put the large hook into the mouth of the 

 minnow, and bending the tail that the hook 

 might go down through the centre of it, 

 then twisting it so as to come out at the 

 lower edge of the tail where the fins com- 

 mence. Here great care must be taken so as 

 to give the tail such a skew as by a forward 



