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when drawn through the water, and thus becomes very attractive 

 to fish. The action is so rapid that the eye cannot follow it, 

 and it has the appearance of two, instead of one worm on the 

 hook. The other two baits are Brook's double twist spinning 

 Eel or Lug and Hearder's Captain Tom's spinning Sand- 

 Eel or Lug- Worm (figs. 28 and 29), with which numbers of 



INDIARUBBER BAITS. 



FIG. 27. FIG. 28. FIG. 29. 



Rubber Band Imitation Brook's Double Twist Hearder's Captain Tom's 

 Rag- Worm. Spinning Eel or Lug-Worm. Spinning Sand-Eel. 



Pollack and Bass have been taken, the so-called Sand-Eel 

 being made of the grey indiarubber pipe placed on the hook 

 so as to form an elbow at the bend, which causes it to spin 



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