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and goe9 under the name of a baitaod. The smaller, say 12 
feet, for small wading streams , and the longer for wider and 
deeper waters. Attached should be an American* reel, 
holding from 30 to 50 yards of American laidi grass, or silk 
line, with from two to three yards of silk-worm gut, termi- 
nating with a Limerick hook, from No. 2 to 5, according to 
the size of your bait, fastened by a loop as before described. 
For baiting the minnow, pass your hook in at the mouth and 
out at the giils, then in again at the commencement of the + 
dorsal fin and out again just beyond, tying the hook at each 
end with a piece of thin silk or thread. By this method you 
can, if you use a live minnow, and are very careful , keep 
your bait animated for a great length of time. 
The North Country Angler gives a very good mode of 
baiting with the minnow, as follows : “ I have a gils e-hook 
(No. 3 or 4) at the end of the line, but wrapped no further 
on the end of the shank than to make it secure, and leave 
more room to bait. An inch, or very little more, from the 
shank end of the gilse-hook, I wrap on a strong hook, about 
half the size of the other. I put the point of the large hook 
in at the mouth of the minnow, and out at the tail, on the right 
side of the minnow, binding it half round as I put it in ; then 
1 put the other hook in, below die under chap, which keeps 
the minnow’s mouth quite close. 
“ When I am in no hurry, I tie the tail and hook together, 
with a very small white thread ; before I enter the little 
hook, I draw up the minnow to its full length, and make it 
fit the bending of the great hook, to make it twirl round 
* The imported reels are used to a great extent, but thoso of Ameri- 
can manufacture are much superior, and should bo preferred. 
t This description of line has of Into years become much used. Tho 
grass is imported from Canton nnd Inid hero, or taken in a finished 
state, untwisted, and relaid, which makes it much stronger and firmer 
than when first imported. 
