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stout sheet copper cut with the shears to the form 

 of Fig. 25 at A. The hooks are attached as also 

 shown. To bait it the shaft (Fig. 25, A) is thrust 

 down the throat of the dead bait, and the tail of 

 the bait bent to a sufficient curve to cause it to 

 spin, or rather to gyrate, with a sort of "wabble," 

 which is very attractive to pickerel. The hooks 

 lie alongside the bait. It is seldom on a bright 

 day, with the wind not too cold, that the tyro 

 cannot capture pike with one or the other of the 

 lures I have described. I have also found the fin 

 of a perch, or the belly part of a small pickerel, an 

 excellent substitute for the spoon. 



Great Lake Trout (the Salmo namaycusli) are 

 also caught by trolling in a somewhat similar way, 

 and at about the same time of the year ; but as it is 

 not likely my boy readers will take up Great Lake 

 trolling at this stage of the subject, I will not do 

 more than mention the fact that on Lake George 

 the experts use a gang, whereon the bait-fish is 

 impaled. The one described above will do very 

 well ; and having out a long, strong line, they 

 travel for miles, trolling this bait behind the boat, 

 and their patience is rewarded with great fish, 

 ranging up as high as the twenties, and even 

 higher. (This is true of the West especially.) 



