52 Baiting a treble and lip hook. Chapt. v. 



so as to give a hold, and also embed one of the hooks tho- 

 roughly well into the side till the other two lie quite flat 

 against it. Pass the baiting needle out of the mouth and 

 proceed as before. This for objectors, but I prefer the 

 use of the vent hole as it tears less. 



But for those who are, too idle for baiting after this 

 manner, and have not an attendant trained to do it, for 

 them, I have another simpler plan which will do nearly 

 as well though it is not quite so neat. It consists of a 

 treble hook and a lip hook with a looped sinker as before. 

 Put the line through the loop or ring of the sinker, and 

 let the sinker run down to the lip hook. Put the sinker 

 thin end foremost into the bait's mouth and half down its 

 throat, close the mouth so as to keep it in by passing the 

 lip hook through both lips. Then embed the treble hook 

 into the side of the dead bait parallel with the vent. You 

 are ready for action. But this bait will not last so long 

 as the former one, because it is given to tearing at the 

 mouth, especially in rough hands which jerk it unneces- 

 sarily in swinging it out for a spin, and when the second 

 hook is not put in so as to share the strain with the lip 

 hook. When properly baited it should give the bait the 

 slightest curve imaginable. But Francis Francis has 

 chapters and two sets of plates on this one subject alone, 

 this line of beauty curve, and H. Cholmondely Pennell 

 has more apparently in "How to spin for Pike." Between 

 these two therefore the reader should have more than en- 

 ough on the subject, and I have already promised not to 

 trouble him with what he has in English books. To these 



