12 SWIVELS—FLIGHTS OF HOOKS—BAITING. [PART I. 
passed through it. The number of swivels used 
will thus amount to six. A smaller number will 
doubtless often answer the purpose, but that I 
have mentioned will ensure the bait spinning well, 
if properly put on, and save your gut from be- 
coming at all twisted. In trailing, when the bait 
is kept spinning a long while continuously, and 
the line is not, by being frequently taken out of 
the water, (as in the ordinary mode of spinning,) 
relieved from any undue twist to which it may be 
subjected, it is almost essential to have as many. 
As to flights of hooks, I am content with four, 
or three, trebles (according to the size of the bait), 
and a lip-hook, which latter should be tied upon a 
minute loop, so small as only just to enable it to 
run up and down the gut. In baiting, it is kept in 
its place by taking a couple of turns round it with 
the gut. A single hook, reversed, just below the 
penultimate treble, tends to keep the tail of the 
bait in its place. A large bait should always be 
secured to the hooks by a piece of thread tied 
round it, just behind, or over, the dorsal fin; 
otherwise it will soon be dragged from them by 
its own weight. 
A very slight crook in the tail is sufficient to 
make a bait spin well, especially a large one. In 
