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late Mr. Garnett. Messrs. Farlow have introduced a very neat 
variation of the ordinary solid brass Devon (fig. 2), gold, silver, 
or painted, rigged to obviate the hook-complications incident 
to the latter well-known flight. These minnows do not slip 
up the line when a fish is run. Nor does Hardy’s ‘Excelsior’ 
spinner (fig. 3), which closely resembles the quill minnow in 
external form and ‘rig,’ but is made of solid, or nearly solid, 
metal. The ‘Watchet bait,’ in gold and silver, as mounted 
by Messrs. Farlow (fig. 4), is constructed on the ‘slip-up’ 
principle. 
FIG. 4.—‘ WATCHET BAIT.’ 
My old friend, the late Mr. Thomas Westwood, bibliophile, 
poet, and fisherman, in one of the last letters I had from 
him, writes: ‘TI tried the other day, with great success, a 
minnow called the ‘‘ Derby Trout Killer.” It is sold by John 
Bullock, Compton Street, Derby. Ask for sizes No. 1 and 
No. 2. I bagged seventeen trout with it in a very short time, 
and a friend, who fished with me, twenty.’ 
The minnow, both natural and artificial, can be used at all 
times of the season, and in all rivers where its employment is 
not interdicted. It is especially successful in some of the 
Devonshire and Cornwall streams for taking what is locally 
known as ‘salmon peel’—a variety of migratory Salmonide 
to which ichthyologists have not yet agreed in assigning a 
specific place. Some writers consider it as a sort of small-sized 
grilse, or the young of the true salmon on its first return from 
the sea, and others merely as a variety of the salmon trout. 
Unfortunately many of the streams of Devonshire and Cornwall 
have been so frightfully polluted of late years by mine water 
