300 Fisnmye ix Asertcan Waters. 
SPINNING-TACKLE FoR Livr Baits. 
the gangs of hooks; 2d, the natural play of the bait when at- 
tached to the gang; and, 3d, the delicacy necessary to form 
it an attraction instead of a warning. No.1 represents an 
adjustable gang, the movable upper hook sliding, and with a 
halfknot fastening at the bend of the hook to the correct 
length, to hold the fish by the lips and leave the gills free. 
Always use shiners for bait when they are to be had. In 
impaling or affixing the minnow or shiner to the gang of 
hooks, first insert the bottom hook nearly an inch above the 
tail, and run it down and out at the tail, as represented by 
No. 2, so as to curve the tail; and, that the tail may have 
precisely the correct curve, fix the next hook, at the top of 
the shank of the large hook, in the skin at the side, so as to 
hold the tail to the curve required; then insert under the 
skin the two middle hooks, which fasten more firmly the bait, 
and confine it to the requisite curve. Then slide down the’ 
lip-hook, or upper one, and insert it through both the lips of 
the fish, shutting its mouth, but leaving the gills free for res- 
piration, Take a half hitch with the snell round the shank 
