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impossible for a trout to escape being hooked. This minnow, 

 which is made both of brass and white metal, is hexagonal or 

 octagonal in form, the object being that the sides and angles 

 catching the light may gain additional glitter and brilliancy. 

 One side is coloured a bright metallic green to represent the 

 minnow's back, the other half representing, of course, the 



bellv. 



The minnow itself can be so adjusted that the trace and 

 tail hooks will either spin with it, or remain stationary and 

 allow the minnow to spin by itself. Each alternative presents 

 some advantages, but in the former case the gut must be 

 thickened by lapping where it passes through the minnow, so 

 as to fit close. 



THE ' QUILL 

 MINNOW.' 



FARLOW S DEVON 

 MINNOW. 



FIG. 3. 



hardy's EXCELSIOR 

 SPINNER. 



A pretty minnow for bright water is made by Messrs. Foster, 

 of Ashbourne, entirely of solid mother of pearl, and painted 

 to imitate the natural. Messrs. Cummings, of Bishop Auckland, 

 make a quill minnow (fig. i), the invention, I am told, of the 



