40 SPRING ANGLING. 



sets in with a file. Having done this neatly, he must 

 bore a hole in each end, and be careful that the 

 edges of the hole are rounded and smooth, or 

 they may cut the whipping of his hooks. He 

 now has a spoon bowl with two holes in it ; the 

 smaller end we will call the top, and the larger 

 end the bottom. Now, the smaller end vtust be 

 the one next nearest the trolling-line, or the spoon 

 won't spin ; and into the hole he passes a small 

 strong split ring, to be got at any hardware store. 

 Keeping it open with his knife, he now slides the 

 ring of the swivel, to which he has attached a 

 length of gimp guitar-string, and a ringed triplet 

 hook is placed in the lower hole, also by means of 

 a split ring. The lure now looks like Fig. 21, and 

 will catch fish as it is ; but it is better to tie some 

 gaudy feathers on the shank of the lower hook, to 

 hide the very "rank" barbs (Fig. 22). The tying 

 of these feathers need not be difficult, and almost 

 any bright feathers, begged from your sister's hat, 

 will do. Tie them, as recommended in sucker 

 fishing for the whipping of hooks, and you now 

 have a lure just as likely to catch a forty-two 

 pound mascalonge as Mr. Chapman's beautiful 

 weapon shown in Fig. 22. 



