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when the hooks are whipped in triangles. 

 For example : let us suppose that a jack 

 has taken a spinning-bait ornamented with 

 a flight of three or four of these large tri- 

 angles, and a sprinkling of single hooks, 

 the bait probably lies between his jaws 

 grasped crosswise. Now it is probable that 

 the two upper points of at least three of these 

 triangles will be pressed upon by the fish's 

 mouth, whilst the bait also to which they are 

 firmly attached is held as by a vice. It follows, 

 therefore, that the whole of this combined 

 resistance must be overcome and that at 

 one stroke, and smartly before a single 

 point can be buried above the barb ! 



For this reason I should most decidedly 

 give my opinion in favour of always striking, 

 and very sharply too, when using the 

 spinning bait, and I believe that many good 

 fish are daily lost through the adoption of an 

 opposite practice. But to return ; the grand 

 principle in the construction of all spinning 



