BAYT-FISHING. 417 
jointed, with a handle which may be made to take on and 
off for the sake of convenience; and armed with a deep 
net, which receives the fish. The hook is intended to 
supply the place of the net, but is a clumsy substitute. 
The baits used for pickerel are exceedingly various, reach- 
ing from the common lob-worm and ordinary hook—which 
will often take the small-sized fish — through all the 
degrees of live minnows and other fish, as well as frogs 
and newts, dead minnows and shiners, artificial minnows 
and shiners, and even the artificial fly. These various 
baits are used also in almost as many different ways, of 
which three have been already described in the list of 
baits, under the heads of “ The live Minnow-bait,” “ The 
Spinning-minnow,” and the “Gorge-hook bait.” But be- 
sides these, the snap-hook bait is employed at those times 
when pickerel are shy of gorging, and inclined to eject the 
bait, or blow it out, as the angler denominates this act. The 
snap-hook is either the plain or the spring snap-hook, and 
they are both used for live, as well’ as dead fish baits; 
though the spring snap-hook is very apt to destroy the 
life of the fish very rapidly, and is a very cruel mode of 
baiting. The plain snap is made in several ways as 
follows :—First plan—two hooks, No. 4, should be tied back 
to back, then to these tie another smaller hook, No. 8, 
together with a piece of wire ending in aneye. To the 
eye is whipped a piece of gimp, and the other end of this 
has a loop by which it is attached to the hook-swivel in 
the usual way. In fixing on the bait proceed as follows: 
Take a good sized shiner, or small roach, or a perch 
with the back fin removed, arm the gimp with a baiting- 
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