304 Fisuinc iw American WATERS. 
Trolling is a luxurious style of fishing. It is not very ar- 
tistic until the fish fastens. Then the play of the fish calls 
for the deftly-expert handling by an angler whose experience 
has taught him the strength and tricks to effect escape pecu- 
liar to each family of fishes. 
Of bait-fishes, the river chub probably ranks next to the 
shiner. It bites eagerly to a minnow-hook baited with liver. 
Then there are the daces, both the horned and smooth heads, 
which are good for bait, and bite readily to a red fly, angle- 
worm, or liver. The stone-sucker is often used for bait, but 
it has no other merit than being firm and lasting; it is not a 
taking lure. Tam in the habit, when angling in the interior 
of the country, and in want of minnow bait, to cut a two-inch 
thick rod, with a fork at the end, trimming the fork, and cut- 
ting it down to the length of two feet, and then fastening a 
piece of bobbinet lace or musquito-netting into the fork, full 
enough to form a bag, and with that extemporized scap-net 
TI have always been able to scap up enough bait from the 
brooks or backsets from the fishing waters. But it is more 
desirable to carry a minnow-net on making these country ex- 
cursions. The gaffhook, landing-net, and minnow-net are es- 
sential implements toward an outfit for an expedition for 
general fishing 
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12. 
FISH-I00KS. 
In the two rows of hooks represented opposite, the angler 
may see the two important Jends, without reference to the 
slight bend sidewise, and called the Avrby bend, which may be 
given to either one. Some anglers prefer a Kirby bend, while 
others contend that it is not so good for mounting with flies 
for either salmon or trout; but Mr. Hyde, the best amateur 
expert in America, generally mounts his flies on Kirby round- 
bends. Of fish-hooks the shape is important, but scarcely more 
so than are the qualitics of metal, temper, and finish. Oh, 
how many aching regrets and hopeless feelings of momentary 
desperation have been caused by a flaw in a fish-hook, or in 
