408 SALMON AND TROUT: 
In choosing leads for baiting with the loach the thinnest 
should have the preference, as the little fish has not a very 
‘PENNELL-BROMLEY FLIGHT.’ 
capacious ‘gape,’ and if the 
leads are too thick they are 
apt to split the jaws. The 
length of the lead will also 
vary slightly as the bait is 
longer or shorter ; with the 
‘Dee’ flight one inch, ‘cap’ 
included, would be about 
correct for a loach of 3 
inches. For a long slender 
bait of 34 inches, a slightly 
longer lead—say 14 in.—is 
désirable. Small baits are 
preferable to large ones in 
lake trout spinning ; indeed, 
I think the bait can hardly - 
be too small if it spins 
really well, and, as observed, 
a 4-inch trout should be the 
maximum size. When from 
necessity or other cause baits 
over 5 inches are used, a 
small-sized ‘ Pennell-Brom- 
ley’ flight, described in 
Vol. II. for Pike-spinning, 
can be adopted, and from 
the arrangement and posi- 
tion of the hooks on the bait 
will be found well adapted to spinning for Sa/monide. 
The mode of constructing the trace for this latter tackle is 
projecting. It then becomes a comparatively easy matter with a quick eye and 
a steady stroke to transfix him with the trident and transfer him to the bait 
basket. The loach has the very ostrich-like habit of conceiving its body to be 
hidden whenever its head is, and thus facilitates materially the operations for 
its capture, 
