186 DOUBLE HOOK AND FLY-HOOK METHODS. 



Another method, said to be successful in rivers that 

 are much fished, in which the bait is presented in a 

 somewhat different shape from the rounded segment, 

 which experience may have taught some of the knowing 

 coves among the finny fraternity, usually contains with- 

 in it a substance, not only rather too pungent to be 

 palatable, but at the same time too hard to digest, is as 

 follows : Two moderate sized round bend fly-hooks are 

 tied together back to back, and the point of one of them, 

 inserted about a quarter of an inch below the head of the 

 worm (which is allowed to hang loose), and buried in 

 its body as far as the whipping will permit (the point 

 of the hook pointing towards the head) ; the remainder 

 of the worm is then coiled round the armature of the 

 hooks two or three times, so as completely to conceal 

 them from view, and the barb of the other hook in- 

 serted into it a little above the tail (and pointing to- 

 wards its extremity), a quarter of an inch of which is 

 allowed to hang free, similar to the other extremity. A 

 worm applied to the hooks in this manner closely re- 

 sembles those sometimes found coiled together in knots 

 in the soil, and if allowed to roll gently over a gravelly 

 scour into a pool or eddy below, with the free extremities 

 writhing about, it will be almost irresistible. 



The last plan I shall mention, is a fine small fly-hook 

 whipped to a length of very fine gut ; when it is to be 

 inserted into the tail of the worm, and brought out again 

 a quarter of an inch above, and reinserted and buried 

 within its body near to the middle; the extreme point 

 only being allowed to protrude through the side. A worm 



