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hound frequently disappears in the pike's 

 attempts to descend, but after a short time, 

 when the wearied captive has relaxed his 

 efforts, again mounts to the surface. This 

 alternate sinking and rising of the hound 

 is frequent when the fish is large and strong; 

 but in the end, the buoyancy of the former 

 never fails to exhaust the pike, and to float 

 triumphant with its prize. Sometimes a 

 few extra yards of line are wound about the 

 hound, as in a trimmer, which are run off by 

 the pike after he has seized the bait. This 

 is done from the mistaken notion of allowing 

 the fish an opportunity of pouching the 

 bait, the same as in narrow and shallow 

 waters, where, at a short distance, he can 

 find the shelter of a bank to gorge his prey 

 in quiet. In hound fishing in a deep lake, 

 where the line neither reaches the shore nor 

 the bottom, this mode is not so likely to 

 succeed as the former; for the chance of the 

 hook which should be a snap striking 

 him at the first plunge, when he is eager to 



