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The large hook is put in at the mouth of the 

 minnow, and the point brought out at a little 



above the tail thus giving the minnow the 

 proper curve for spinning. One of the smaller 

 hooks is put through loth lips of the lure, to 

 close the mouth and to keep the bait in proper 

 position, while the other is left to spin. Some 

 advocate the use of par -tail as a spinning 

 bait ; but as it is not right to kill par at all, 

 we omit any directions for its use. We have 

 drifted into the subject of LURES almost un- 

 consciously. If you wish to use natural min- 

 nows, see that they are neither too large nor 

 too small about two inches long is a good 

 size and that the belly is silvery. It is 

 better to instruct your boatman to have a 

 supply ready against your arrival at the loch, 

 as sometimes it is as difficult to catch minnows 

 as to catch any other fish. However, we believe 

 that the want of them is so well supplied by 

 the phantom minnow, that little or no harm 

 is done though they are not to be had. And 

 when the handling and bother of using live 



