164 Spoonbaits. My loop-knot. Chapt. xiii. 



Spoon baits also should be mounted with 

 Spoons. ^ e game toots specially for India, and 



should, for the reasons already given (page 46.), be 

 made of thicker metal than fishing spoons ordinarily are. 

 I like them as thick as a good tea spoon. The sizes for 

 Mahseer spoons are from one and a quarter, to two and 

 three quarter, inches in length in the bowl ; but a medium 

 sized one of two inches in length, is perhaps the most 

 generally useful. 



For the reasons given below in connection with rust 

 eaten gut, it is desirable that the ring in the spoon to 

 which the gut trace is attached, should be of some ma- 

 terial that does not rust like the steel split ring ordina- 

 rily used. Galvanized iron or brass might be substituted 

 with advantage. 

 „ , , , Any one who . baits with a fish on one 



Double loop- * 



knot. treble hook, or on a single hook drawn 



home to the anus, should have a loop at the end of his 

 spinning trace big enough to allow of the bait being 

 passed through it ; for the simplest way of attaching this 

 bait to the trace is to put the large loop of the trace 

 through the loop of the snood,* and then pass the bait 

 through the large loop. But traces are not always made 

 with large loops, and then the only alternative is to un- 

 hitch the collar from the running line every time you 

 fresh bait, and passing the loop of the snood through one 

 loop of the trace, then to pass the whole trace * through 



* The snood is the length of gut, or other material, with loop, which 

 is attached to the hook. 



