70 BAIT AND FLY FISHING. 



CHAPTER III. 



I CONSIDER loch fishing similar to small 

 dead river fishing ; but it may be altered in 

 its mode and its bait, according to the kind 

 of fish angled for. I sometimes trolled for 

 pike with a minnow or trout, or any small 

 fish, my tackle being as before described. 

 If I did not succeed by trolling, I used 

 hooks for dead bait, that is, two twisted 

 loop wires about five inches each, joined in 

 the middle a hole in each end. I put one 

 end up the vent of the bait fish until it came 

 out at its mouth ; then put through the 

 double hook, drew it back so that the points 

 protruded at each side of the mouth. I tied 

 a cord round the bait fish not to allow the 

 pike to tear it off. The other end or hole 

 was fixed to the whip cord or line. I held 

 it about the float and gave it a turn or two 

 round my head making it fly off at a tangent, 

 as far into the loch as was required for depth 



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