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the gimp or gut on the lip-hook so that no slack 

 be left, the whole flight on the bait being kept 

 as straight as possible. After the flight, come 

 the trace and lead. A salmon-gut trace is far 

 better than one of gimp, gimp traces being chiefly 



employed for pike 

 as gut is imagined 

 to be not strong 

 enough ; but as 

 thirty and forty 

 pound salmon are 

 killed on gut I fail 

 to see why we 

 should use gimp 

 traces for pike, 

 though I prefer 

 gimp on the flight 

 for reasons pre- 

 viously given. To 

 spin comfortably, 

 there should be at 

 least two swivels 

 between bait and 

 lead : I prefer leads 

 fitted with swivels, 

 two smaller leads 

 rather than one 

 large one. Care 

 should be taken 

 that the lead is not too far from the bait; the 

 closer it is to the bait, the easier the throw, 

 eighteen inches to two feet being a good dis- 

 tance. Eighteen inches may seem too near the 

 bait, but I have not found it make any differ- 

 ence to sport. In spinning from a weir head 



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