16 SPINNING-TACKLE I 



tackle is the use of the flying triangle as dis- 

 tinguished from that whipped upon the 

 central gimp. By the expression " flying 

 triangle/' it is not intended to be implied 

 that the triangle should necessarily fly loose 

 from the bait, but that it should fly loose 

 from the central gimp by a short link of its 

 own, so that it may become readily disen- 

 gaged the moment it pricks a fish. A 

 flight constructed with flying triangles can 

 never fail to be tolerably certain, in landing 

 at least, a fish once struck. There are, 

 however, many degrees of excellence in 

 such flights, even in the item of ' landing ;' 

 and a$ regards the ' spinning ' of the bait, 

 not one in a hundred of those that have 

 come under my notice has been in the least 

 calculated to make a bait spin with the 

 regularity and rapidity requisite. 



The wood-cut opposite shows the number 

 and arrangement of hooks which after 

 various experiments I have found to be the 



