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being held by the tail, and lower part in the 

 left hand, and partly supported, perhaps, by the 

 sleeve of the coat, or by the bare arm, and the 

 remaining fingers of the right hand. Every one will 

 have a way in which he can do this best, and will 

 find it oat after a few trials. If the fish is large and 

 struggles violently, the usual direction given in the 

 books, is to let an assistant hold the head. We counsel 

 you, if the fish struggles violently, whether it be large or 

 small, to drop it back into the tub, manipulate another, 

 and after a few minutes try it again ; it will lie quiet 

 after a while. If you attempt to hold a fish, which 

 struggles violently, you will be very apt to kill it. It, 

 in addition to your own two hands, you get the two 

 hands of an assistant on the struggling fish, there is not 

 much chance of saving him alive. A better way is to file 

 the barb off of a No. 4 hook, then tie it with three feet 

 of line to a pliant switch three feet long. Hook your 

 fish on this, through the jaw, and holding it in a tub of 

 water, let it struggle until it is exhausted. Then the 

 hook can be slipped out, no injury having been done to 

 the trout, which can be handled without difficulty. 



The large trout are harder to handle, struggle more vio- 

 lently, and are more apt to be killed thau the smaller 

 ones and do not average so many eggs, although now 

 and then one will have a very large number. There- 

 fore, we consider that the best fish for breeders, when 

 the operation is conducted by hand, are those weighing 

 from one-quarter of a pound to one pound. 



The pan should be elevated at one side, during the 

 operation of taking the spawn, by standing it on a block 

 half an inch thick, and enough water will drip from the 

 fish so that by tilting and shaking it the milt can be 

 brought in contact with the eggs. J^'ormerly it was the 



