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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
Fig. 256. Different methods of fastening live bait on the snood hooks of a Pike-line. 
reedy shores, but else clear of weeds, so that the hooked 
fish cannot run the line foul. Though this fishing may 
be practised all the winter, it succeeds best and is 
attended with least difficulty early in the season, be- 
fore the ice has attained any considerable thickness, 
Fig. 257. Different forms of triangle-hook for Pike-fishing under 
the ice with live bait. The bait is attached by inserting the point 
of the hook in the fleshiest part of the back beside the spinal co- 
lumn and drawing it out in the direction of the head, so that, when 
the bait is left in the water, the hook keeps it in a natural position, 
and the point of the hook is directed backwards. 
and after some snow has fallen, to render the ice less 
transparent and to give the fisherman a foothold. 
The stdngkrok (fig. 258), with the slang (a thick 
rod) obliquely thrust into the bottom, and with the 
line wound up, so that the Pike can run to its entire 
length until the fisherman comes to examine his tackle, 
may be used not only in summer, but also, with some 
modification of its setting, in winter. In all seasons 
Fig. 258. a and b, the tops of two rods as used in stdngkrok 
fishing (as much as should be visible above the water); «, with the 
line wound on a boiv (hazel best); b, with the line wound on a forked 
stick (juniper best), c, bait fastened on the hook (see above, fig. 
256), but also suspended from the line by a fine thread (attached to 
a pin stuck through its back), so as to keep it in an horizontal posi- 
tion. d, dead bait suspended in a triangle, where the line (the thick 
line in the figure) forms one side of the triangle, the hook and the 
bait form the base, and a fine thread, attached as in c, forms the 
third side. 
the stdngkroh is invariably set near the edge of the 
reeds, off rocks, promontories, and holms, in such in- 
lets as the Pike is supposed to haunt. 
The klumpkrok (fig. 259), with the rod of the pre- 
ceding method replaced by a floating klump (a piece 
of timber 3 or 4 feet long), one end of which is an- 
chored with a stone, the line, wound up on a bow, 
Fig. 259. Klumpkrok. 
being suspended from the other end. Used at the same 
season as the stdngkrok and at similar spots. 
The palkrok (fig. 260), with one end of the line 
anchored by means of a stone but fastened at a dis- 
tance from this point somewhat less than the depth of 
the water, by means of a running noose, in a notch 
at the end of a. floating pale (a splinter of spruce-fir 
about 3 feet long), so that about a third of the splinter 
projects above the surface. Employed at the same 
season and in the same places as the klumpkrok , to 
which it has no slight resemblance. 
