24 OBSERVATIONS 



The. Dead Snap. This method of taking 

 pike will be found the pleasaritest, and most 

 succefsful of any; adapted to shallow and 

 deep waters, the still and rapid parts of the 

 river, will take pike at all seasons of the 

 year, when the water is in order and the 

 weather favorable ; and it will be no trifling 

 recommendation, to find it free from every 

 idea of cruelty, that fishing with a live bait 

 naturally imprefses. Your rod must be 

 longer than that for trolling, but as it would 

 be inconvenient and expensive to have dif- 

 ferent rods for these purposes, one rod may 

 be made to answer all, by the application of 

 different tops. Your line must be fine and 

 strong, twenty yards will be sufficient ; the 

 hooks are made thus : take three large hooks, 

 bigger than those for barbel, and having 

 ground the backs on a fine grinding stone, 

 place two of them back to back, and with 

 strong double silk well waxed, wrap them 

 round four or five times, beginning at the 

 bend, drawing the silk tight every round, 

 place the third hook upon the two first, in a 



