36 OBSERVATIONS 



You may angle with two or three rods, lay>. 

 ing them upon the bank, you need not be 

 in a hurry to strike, they are sure to gorge. 

 Minnows are good baits, you may use them 

 as directed for the dead snap for pike, your 

 tackle being much finer, the lead lighter, and 

 the hooks and swivels smaller. The link 

 on which the hooks are tied, may be three 

 fine gut twisted together, one alone would 

 be strong enough, but the shanks of the 

 hooks would soon fret it to pieces ; fine 

 gimp may be used, as you will frequently 

 meet with a pike, and a very small one will 

 damage the gut, if not bite it to pieces : the 

 baiting needle must be shorter than that di- 

 rected for pike, and finer wire ; you ought 

 to have several of different sizes. The 

 minnow is baited exactly in the same man- 

 ner as a dace for pike. By this mode of 

 angling with a minnow, you will be more 

 certain of hooking the fish : all fish of prey 

 seize the bait by the middle, where the hooks 

 are placed, and in such directions that they 

 rarely mifs, and are more certain than the 



