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to three gallons of water, with the lid 
perforated to let air into the bait, is 
generally sufficient; but some anglers 
prefer a double pail, the inner one per- 
forated all over in holes the size of 
buckshot. In this case the pails are of 
equal size at the tep and bottom, or 
cylindrical, and the inner pail may be 
taken ont and the water changed be- 
tore returning it, without the danger of losing bait. Another 
plan is to have a can shaped like the foregoing cut, and, in- 
stead of frequently changing the water, insert a siphon, and 
draw the water up and let it fall back into the can, which 
aerates the water and revives the bait. In carrying young 
trout to stock streams, the cans may be of either wood or tin, 
but they should be constructed with a pump to aerate the 
water. Clean swamp-moss, and a small piece of ice in moss, 
should always be placed in the water for conveying live fish 
several miles in warm weather. 
SPINNING BAITS. 
Spinning baits for trolling on all fresh waters have proved 
the most successful for nearly all the game fishes which in- 
habit them. Tincline to the opinion that, if spinning minnow 
squids could be made strong enough for trolling with along 
our coasts and in our estuaries, all the surface-feeding fish 
of those waters might be taken in greater numbers than they 
are now by casting menhaden bait, and by all other fish- 
ing appliances except the set-nets and pounds, which—as 
they take all sizes of fishes—should be regulated by law, es- 
pecially as to where they may be used, and under what con- 
ditions, ete. Of course, the rig for ecoast-trolling would re- 
quire to be made very strong; for even the plain bluetish 
squid fastened to a heavy hawser-laid line is often parted by 
the jaws of bluefish, Spanish mackerel, bonetta, or cero. Even 
a fifty or seventy-five pound striped bass, or a twenty or thir- 
