ITS DEFECTS AND KEMEDIES. 21 



body of the bait should lie perfectly straight, and 

 great care must be taken that .the gimp is tightened 

 sufficiently to prevent too great a strain on the lip- 

 hook, and yet not so tight as in any degree to ben$ 

 or twist the lody of the bait. 



In baiting with gudgeon or bleak, the gimp 

 should invariably be given a turn over the point of the 

 lip hook after the latter is fixed. This is very im- 

 portant in securing a first-rate spin. 



SWIVELS. 



We live in times in which, as we are con- 

 stantly being told, the schoolmaster is abroad; 

 and, in England at least, the dwellers in what 

 dear old Tom Hood called the " Eely Places/ 7 

 have assuredly come in for their full share of 

 educational advantages. No well-informed 

 Pike or Trout is now to be ensnared by such 

 simple devices as those which proved fatal to 

 his rustic progenitors in the good old days of 

 innocence and Isaac Walton. Were we to 



