LIVE-BAITING. 165 



' The same author who refers to the huxing practised on 

 Loch Monteith, also states that huxing, if it may be so called, 

 by means of a kite — not feathered, but papered — was recently 

 carried out with success on Slapton Ley, South Devon. 



All these eccentric inventions for kiUing pike, however, 

 bear a suspicious resemblance to the trimmer, or as authors 

 formerly used to call it, ' Floater,' of the legitimacy of which, as 

 a sportsmanlike mode of pike -fishing, opinions have fortunately 

 undergone a considerable change since Robert Salter (1811) 

 wrote that on , ' large pools it afforded stronger exercise and 

 greater variety of amusement than any other part of ponl- 

 fishing.' 



PATERNOSTERING. 



The only other branch of snap live bait fishing is ' pater- 

 nostering.' The paternoster, the origin of which somewhat 

 peculiar appellation' I am unacquainted with, although occasion- 

 ally used, and not without success, to take pike as well as 

 perch — its more legitimate province — has been hitherto hardly 

 considered as forming a branch of pike-fishing. The success, 

 however, with which Mr. Alfred Jardine has lately developed 

 and improved upon both the tackle and the mode of using 

 it, has been such that this book would not be complete without 

 some practical account both of the old and the new methods. 



The old tackle simply consisted of a few yards of gut or 

 gimp attached to a bullet (pear-shaped best), a,nd having two 

 single hooks. No. 8 or 9 — either gut or gimp, as the game 

 attacked was either pike or perch — which stood out from half 

 a foot to a foot from the main traCe. For pike-fishing the 

 first hook was usually attached to the gut say a foot above the 

 lead, and the second one, where a second was used, from a foot 

 to a foot and a half above that The hooks are baited by 

 being passed through the two lips of a minnow, gudgeon, or 

 other bait, which is then allowed to sink to the bottom, in the 

 eddies under banks, weirs, and in other likely holds. The line 



