CH. I1.] TIN-FOIL AS BAIT FOR SEA-FISH. 27 
runs in every “stickle,’ and it seemed quite irre- 
sistible. 
Two years ago, I put up a large coarse mother- 
o’-pearl kill-devil (which Mr Gould had given me 
to see what I could make of it) to trail with when 
pulling up the (salt water) Loch Creran in Argyle- 
shire. To my surprise the first thing I caught 
with it was a pretty good Sea Trout, which was 
succeeded by two or three Lythe (Pollack), Cod- 
lings, &c. In salt-water lochs a piece of an old 
white glove sewn over a flight of hooks, of course 
leaving the hooks exposed, will be found to answer 
very well. It should be sewn in a round shape, 
so as to resemble a sand-eel as much as possible. 
If a piece of silver tinsel be twisted round it, so 
much the better. If sewn on one of the Archime- 
dean bait tackles (those intended to be thrust into 
the mouths of baits, leaving the flanges exposed), 
it would, I doubt not, be more killing, as the 
flanges would give a little glitter to the bait, and 
the spinning of it would prevent the hooks from 
being so plainly seen. All artificial baits with 
pectoral flanges are, I think, preferable to 
those which spin from the tail. A piece of com- 
mon tin-foil, such as tobacco is wrapped in, 
simply twisted round the hook, with a small 
