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of the hook at the curve, wind it a few times round the 
shank, and run it through the hole at the top of the shank of 
the hook. This completes baiting; and with a good swivel 
at the top of the snell or snood, a few inches (say six) above 
the upper hook, the bait will revolve in water, and remain an 
attractive lure for hours while trolling, unless a bite inter- 
venes, and then the biter is quite sure to be hooked; for the 
triangular gang, playing to a ring on the outside of the fish, 
is generally sure to intercept the fish (which aims at the head 
of the bait) before it is taken by the tail-hook. 
Francis Francis, in philosophizing upon the superiority of 
the spinning of artificial baits over natural ones, concludes 
that it is “because they are stiff throughout ;” and that is 
one of the reasons why they do not get out of proper shape 
as do the living ones when not properly impaled and perma- 
nently fixed on a gang of hooks so arranged as that nothing 
but a bite will disturb or derange the bait. Ihave not the 
shghtest hesitation in pronouncing this spinning gang the 
best arrangement of hooks that has thus far been presented 
to the American angler. 
Figures 3 and 4 illustrate what is termed the “ dead snap.” 
Of course, all gangs for natural baits should either be fasten- 
ed to single, double, or twisted gut snells, or to the finest pos- 
sible silver gimp wire. They are generally wound to the lat- 
ter with fine wire, but fresh-water trolls or spinning gangs 
should be fastened on silk-worm gut. Regulate the number 
of plies of gut to the size and power of fish to be trolled for. 
The present gang, No. 3, may be fastened to single gut, if the 
gut be round and strong. 
In baiting, insert the tail hook first, then the middle hook 
just under the skin, and finally slide down the lip-hook 
and insert it through both lips. Sometimes a baiting-needle 
is used to insert the snell from the body out at the mouth 
through the upper eill-cover, The upper hook should always 
slide on the snell by a hole or small loop of gut at the top of 
the shank. 
